It's not every day you see a small aeroplane lined up alongside motor vehicles at the fuel bowser.

But the Cameron Corner Store, located in the remote outback where the borders of Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia meet, is not your everyday place. Listen Duration: 3 minutes 8 seconds 3 m 8 s Listen Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Pilot and retired South Australian farmer Roger Crouch volunteers his time helping out graziers in the outback ( Cherie McDonald ) Download 1.4 MB

Pilot and retired South Australian farmer Roger Crouch says it was the low levels of Avgas that got him fuelling up in the middle of nowhere and the corner of everywhere.

"We can use Avgas or premium unleaded," he said.

"We have Avgas in the tanks but not quite enough to get us to Broken Hill. So we're adding just a little bit of ordinary petrol that will mix it up ok, and get us there."

Mr Crouch says it's been hard to retire from his mixed cropping farm that his sons now manage, and instead prefers to head to outback properties with wife Marge, to donate time helping pastoralists on their stations.

"It's hard to retire, but it's no good sitting in a chair and dreaming about it," he said.

"We flew to a property about 50 kilometres north of Bollon in QLD and we've been working there as volunteers for Frontier Services.

"I put two windows in a bulldozer, I broke in a little foal to lead, I painted a room, weeded the garden and did anything that needed doing."

Never one to shy away from a challenge, Mr Crouch says it was when he became a sexagenarian, that it was time to get a pilot's licence.

"I learned in the mid 80s to fly gliders and then that just took up too much time with a young family, so I gave it away," he said.

"Then when I turned 60, I thought, 'if I'm going to learn to fly, then I better learn pretty quickly', so I did that, and have been flying ever since."

Putting the last drop of fuel into his two-seater Tecnam, Mr Crouch expects his homebound journey will take two hours to get to Broken Hill.

"We cruise at 100 knots, and hope for a good tailwind," he smiles.