How we flew Australia's BUSIEST Air Route

Flying the World's 2nd Busiest Air Route in a Single Engine Cirrus - Sydney to Melbourne in Controlled Airspace. A detailed video with ATC calls, charts, procedures, and how I fly Australia's Busiest Air route through clouds and over mountains.

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VERY IMPORTANT: I am a private pilot and am NOT qualified to give flying instruction. This video, like all videos on this channel, has been significantly edited from the original source footage and is provided for entertainment purposes only. Many radio calls and procedures have been omitted. If you have any questions about anything you see or hear, please speak to a Certified Flying Instructor first.

[generickiwi]

Stef, you could film yourself walking to the shops and it'd be an enjoyable watch.

I love escaping to the skies with you, thanks so much for taking us all along, even us Kiwis!

[fly]

Hey Stef. Mate, I have been watching for a number of years now and I absolutely love the content you put out. This is absolutely one of my favourites. Seeing your daughter and yourself have such a rad time enroute back to Melbourne is so awesome. Bloody legend. Thanks again for everything you do for the avition community - it is greatly appreciated.

[sactu]

I heard you checking in with CBR approach as I was returning in the Mooney from Ballarat. 'Hey! I know that callsign!!'

[cejay]

I love your videos and especially the relationship you have with your daughter. So touching to see. I’m booked Cairns to London late April to pay my respects to my mum who died last year in the UK. I’m hoping some of the madness dissipates and it settles down a little. I’m a runner and will get a 50km trail race in as well during my short stay. Take care and keep the videos coming.

[marsgal]

That Dad smile at 8:38 says it all.

I stayed close to home in summer 2021 putting the first hours on a freshly rebuilt engine. A vicious fire season didn't help. It's up to us to make 2022 all we want it to be.

[VHMMP]

As a former night freight pilot, I rarely experienced those wonderful daytime cloud breaks. Nice.

[dominics]

Nice vid. I don't think anyone ever gets sick of that moment you break through clouds into blue sky...passengers or pilots.

[maddes]

Thanks for reminding me of the beautiful time I had in Melbourne two years ago, Stef! Been following along since and you encourage me to come back and go flying down under one day. Next time I will not hesitate to do the license conversion. Cheers from snowy Germany!

[davidhunt]

A special thing to go flying with your parent !! My father was a commercial pilot and I got to fly with him on a few occasions always enjoyed it . I am sure your daughter loves it and maybe she will catch the aieroplane /flying bug like I have had all my life . Great video !!

[billpugh]

Thanks Stef, I really enjoyed this vid.
My daughter turned 16 this week, I'm looking forward to taking her for a flight like this when I get my passenger endorsement.

[rustyknight]

Got to watch you (on flightrader) arrive and departure Sydney, caught me be surprise .... wish I was flying, the drive was SOOOO much fun
. Save flying

[andrewwardlaw]

Thanks to YouTube's algorithms I've just stumbled across your video. Great video, excellent editing. Now I get the fun of going back and watching others. 👍👍

[ThomasIF]

Hey! I can see my house in this video! Maybe one day I'll spot you flying over Canberra, when you go to Sydney again! Or maybe even spot you landing here :) Great video as always Stef!

[trento]

Great video thanks mate. Just had a thought, perhaps adding flight date: XX/XX/XX in your descriptions might be cool for reference of other pilots and viewers in general. Cheers!

[damiendavis]

Thanks mate. Such an inspiration. About to sign for my first AC! Solid IFR platform. I am watching and learning and becoming ever more excited! Thanks for sharing Stefan!

[xachilles]

Cool video.
The reason why Australia has such a busy air route is because there is only one commercial airport in each big city.
If you counted all the traffic going from, say, San Francisco Bay Area to Los Angeles area it'd be 8 times SYD-MEL traffic.
LA has LAX, BUR, SNA, ONT, LGB alone. All busy commercial passenger airports. SF has 3 busy international airports.

[LDGoodman]

Literally having tears watching this vlog! Soooo good!!! Sooo cooolll!!!!

[xjohnno]

I'm slowly getting there Stef! 2022 is my year of learning to fly! Quick shout out to Base Aviation for this! Awesome video again can't wait to join you in the skies...

[lachlanmcmahon]

It's amazing how busy the Melbourne to Sydney and back to Melbourne route is. Love your videos stef and keep up that great work

[AviationActionYSSY]

Merry Christmas, I hope you have a good new year and let’s hope 2022 is better for all of us. Always great to see you flying out of YSBK. Looks like you parked in the Falconair/AOPA/flight school hangar, is this correct ? Great video as always, keep it up !