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Old 03-21-2008, 06:02 PM
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Hi all again.

I had an email regarding the helicopter flight and thought I would let everyone who knows the area know what we did.

Firstly, let me thank my friend Ian the owner and Chief Pilot at the 12 Apostle Helicopters and Johnathan the owner of Microflite who shouted us the flights and flew us about for the two days in their time. Your time and efforts were really appreciated.


The flights filming the Ocean Road area....

We flew out of the Port Campbell airport at the 12 Apostles and after flying over the Apostles, we headed east along the Great Ocean Road to Apollo Bay where we flew at low level over Appollo Bay and the Great Ocean Road. We were at road level and below at times - filming for Hershal.

Fantastic....

We then headed over Lorne, Aireys Inlet along the Anglesea, Bells Beach and Torquay towns to the Point Lonsdale heads only metres above the ocean and roads.

At the heads we watched the Port Phillip Pilots on a cargo ship line up for the heads approach. We were able to see the pilot boat heading back into the bay ahead of the ship.

We flew north east up the bay to Morrabbin airport where we landed after flying over the Mornington peninsular and town to Morrabbin.

We then flew out from Morrabbin with Ian and the gang to Lilydale in eastern Melbourne. This flight took us over old Melbourne town suburbs - to the winery on the outskirts of Lilydale.

The flight back to Melbourne saw us fly west over Lilydale, Ringwood, Blackburn, Prahran, Toorak and directly into the heart of Melbourne.

We approached over the Tennis centre, MCG and the Arts Centre and then lined up the Yarra flying in over the Flinders Street Station along the Yarra droping down between the city buildings and landing opposite the Crown Casino.

The next day saw us fly back over Melbourne and do a full loop along the north end of the bay over Port Melbourne, Newport, Williamstown and then south along the Geelong Road to Geelong.

We had the opportunity to do a few low level loops over my home in Geelong and wave to my daughter and Anne my wife.

We then headed inland over Winchelsea to Colac and back to Port Campbell over rural western Victoria.

Hope this covers the flight for you guys who know the area...

Again, thanks to Ian and the gang at the '12 Apostles helicopters' and Johnathan at 'Microflite' in Melbourne.

If you are thinking of a flight use these two guys. Here are a few links with photos of the helicopters we used.

www.12ah.com

www.microflite.com.au

Mmmm back to making burgers....
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