Thanks for picking up the slight mistake Doug! what's and extra '0'!!

As for the fuel burn with the 912is - We averaged 17lph - about 1.5lt more than we were getting flying local. We put it down to the extra weight - nearly always at MTOW.

Would we do it again? Yep sure - already talking about other sections of the continent - we really only went up and back through the red centre and there is a lot left to discover. And nearly all of it is outside any controlled airspace. We think that we will select a couple of spots to fly to and set up camp for 4-5 days and fly the local areas. In the meantime, we need to catch up on some work and attend to my sons weeding next weekend.

Thanks for all the interest - its a pleasure to share it with you all.

cheers

r