Originally Posted by
Ixixly
Good luck getting over top of Melbourne during the day in normal operations and I say this as an ex-survey Pilot who has literally been laughed at whilst trying to get permission to do this sort of thing. Good time to get out and do some interesting stuff you wouldn't normally be able to due to traffic, I hear Survey at the moment is going nuts trying to make the most of it.
I’ve been overhead plenty of times before. You’ve just got to plan the track at which you overfly, depending on wind direction versus active runways at the time.