VFR is a perfectly legitimate flight regime, just as IFR.
OCTA, in VMC, apart from "no reported IFR traffic" and a SAR which is surely being held exactly what is the difference.
For example, repositioning from a mine site to YBMA for fuel, what is the difference?
Clogging up the system?
Some of you guys need need to get in the real world just a few times a year.
One mate who flies commercially now but flew fast military jets in Europe and the UK is still pissing his pnts over ths topic........he wonders how on earth he survived all those years. Outback Australia must be a lot more dangerous than sandy war zones and other hostile European destinations