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Data & Methodology

Source and API authority for fuel, travel-cost, EV, diesel versus petrol, towing, aviation and macro/rate calculators.

Data & methodology

We identify whether a value is live, delayed, periodic, or an estimate. Live API failures never expose credentials: the relevant calculator falls back to its documented estimate or leaves the value unavailable.

NSW FuelCheck

Live feed (cached)

NSW Department of Customer Service / Fair Trading

Endpoint: https://api.onegov.nsw.gov.au/FuelPriceCheck/v1/fuel/prices

Coverage / fields: Station identity, address, fuel code, cents-per-litre price and last-updated timestamp for NSW/ACT reporting stations.

Statutory station feed; responses are cached for up to 15 minutes.

Attribution: Based on or contains data provided by the State of New South Wales.

Reporting NSW and ACT stations and retail fuels only.

Missing server credentials use the regional estimate and are labelled as such.

Official reference

Victoria Fair Fuel Open Data

Official delayed feed

State of Victoria / Service Victoria

Endpoint: https://api.fuel.service.vic.gov.au/open-data/v1/fuel/prices

Coverage / fields: Victorian station identity, address, brand, fuel type, availability, cents-per-litre price and update timestamp.

Official delayed open-data publication.

Attribution: Contains data provided by Service Victoria under the Fair Fuel Open Data API.

Coverage depends on station reporting and feed availability.

Missing VIC_FUEL_API_KEY uses the regional estimate.

Official reference

WA FuelWatch, SA and Queensland schemes, and AIP surveys

Periodic official series

Australian state consumer agencies and the Australian Institute of Petroleum

Coverage / fields: Regional reference prices and cycle context; no station-level live guarantee in the baseline estimator.

Each agency or survey follows its own published schedule.

Attribution: Use each agency's published attribution and terms when relying on official prices.

Regional baselines are estimates, not current bowser prices.

Official reference

RBA, FRED and ECB public rate series

Periodic official series

Reserve Bank of Australia, Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis and European Central Bank

Endpoint: RBA CSV, FRED FEDFUNDS observations API, and ECB Data API

Coverage / fields: RBA cash rate, US Federal Funds rate and ECB deposit facility rate with source observation dates.

Fetched server-side and cached for up to 12 hours.

Attribution: Rates remain attributed to the publishing central bank or statistical authority.

Reference inputs, not a quote or financial advice.

Unavailable series remain null; calculators retain their stated assumptions.

Official reference

CASA, Airservices Australia and Bureau of Meteorology

Reference / assumption

Australian aviation regulators, navigation authority and meteorological agency

Coverage / fields: Calculator assumptions include ISA atmosphere, wind vectors, fuel burn and reserve formulas; no operational weather or dispatch data is supplied.

Always check current official publications before operating.

Attribution: CASA, Airservices Australia and BOM remain the authoritative publishers.

Flight tools do not replace a POH/AFM, AIP/ERSA, dispatch release or briefing.

Official reference

Calculator assumptions

Reference / assumption

mycalculator.com.au

Coverage / fields: User-entered distance, efficiency, price, mass, rate, tax and aviation performance inputs plus documented formula constants.

Maintained with each relevant calculator.

Attribution: Calculations are produced by mycalculator.com.au and are illustrative.

Inputs, rounding, illustrative baselines and jurisdiction rules affect results.

Official reference