Wow, what an amazing video that puts it all in perspective, that is a lot of water coming through the Murray mouth and out to sea. Enjoyed your editorial and knowledge, Thank you
Thanks, I fly for the view as much as any other reason to fly. It’s awesome to see the Murray carve its way through such a dry landscape and flow out to sea.
@@SKYHILLMIKE Mike, you also fly so that your son can explain to you that the difference between fresh and seawater is attributable to the relative densities. Explain wind shear to him in similar terms. Cheers.
Awesome footage , so cool you share these experiences with your son. Also your very knowledgeable with all your landmarks thanks for sharing . Fly safe
Thanks for watching! Yeah it’s awesome sharing these adventures with the wife and kids. Son was falling to sleep today. We flew today and got some more footage of Renmark to Wongulla.
Excelent: content and quality. These are places where I have gone boating many times, and punts on which I have crossed many times. This video has been better than any put up by the tv/newspaper channels.
Thanks for the kind words. We crossed the river today and drove along some of it and visited Mannum, from the ground it’s just not possible to take it all in, its definitely a different perspective. We saw a few business with water through them and others on the dry side of the levy bank pumping out cellars/basements that I’m guessing is floods from water soaking through underground or drain flowing backwards.
Interesting, thanks. Fascinating to see all of the little towns that we normally only see from the road, gives it a whole new perspective. Impressive flow out into the ocean as well.
First class view of the lower Murray region, Mike. We're another 350km south-east of TB so any trips to Adelaide only provide a very limited view of the flooding.
Thanks, yeah I grew up 100km east of Tailem Bend, I would get excited when we saw the water crossing the river at Murray Bridge, you would see it for a few seconds and that was it. To fly over it for 3 hrs is obviously a great experience especially while in flood
Thanks for the great arial views. Waved when you came over the house but you were a bit far away to see 🥴😋 As most of the fields have just been harvested and very late in the season because of the rain we had, they had to wait for crops to dry, makes the countryside look a lot drier than it is. Great shots tho. Happy new year to you and your family 🎇🎆
Thank you for such a great video. Puts it all into perspective. That's a whole lot of water coming down and out to sea. Incredible and sad at the same time for the shack and business owners along there.
Love your posts Mike. From WA , have no idea how this is afffecting everyone until we see your posts, thanks for sharing. Best wishes to all for quick recovery.
That was terrific what a great flight. I live up the other end of the Murray at Rutherglen near Wodonga and the Hume Dam and watching the water spilling over the wall through eleven gates was amazing We also went up to Dartmouth dam not long after it overflowed and cascaded down the quarry where the rock for the wall was sourced. The overflow was running at 9.3 gigalitres a day and all of that was going into Lake Hume as well as what was coming down the Murray which at that stage was 14 gigalitres a day. Those inflows went higher after that due to rain and snowmelt. I have been in this area for 40 years and it is the first time I have seen the Murray run past us at summer irrigation level right through the winter trying to get a reasonable air gap in Lake Hume. it's hard to imagine that most of this water fell as rain 4 to 6 months ago.
Thanks mate, yeah I can’t get my head around that the water flowing into SA a DAY has been more than what SA households use in a YEAR. It’s such an impressive amount of water. We just spent a week on Lake Eildon and was great to see it full. We have been on the Hume before, it would be good to see it now. I think when we were last there it was on the high side but I’m sure it would be even higher now.
Another great video, very helpful that you identified even the tiny settlements. I’m learning to fly at Aldinga so any small plane footage is great. John
I realised people were asking and talking about the smaller settlements to so I thought I’d label what I could and show more and not chop too much out. Which made for a longer video than my first flood video
thank you, thank you, we never realize the extent of the flood, so thank you for showing it to us, well done, well explained and all the best to you and family, hope you have a great year
Thanks for the appreciation mate. I didn’t realise the extent until my first flight over the flooded river. I flew the river again on Monday and I’m currently editing it.
That was awesome, you get a much better picture from up there! Would love to able to fly over it all! Was in Morgan the other day & couldn't believe how wide the river was!
I live in Loxton South Australia, and this is one of the best videos you've ever done so far, I would like to see more of this. If not, I would like to hire your service so I can record the flood areas.
@@SouthTrainsAndPlanes I live on Schick Street in Loxton Hollywood area, and I'm actually safe, because I have research into Floods, Fires and Earthquakes risk areas before I bought myself a new property, that is one thing that people do fail to do so.
Another great video Mike - saved me from a long drive out there - & with a much better/ wider view! R u going do another one near the Xmas/ NY flood peak?
Thanks mate, Rans S6S which is a common kit or factory built plane in USA. They have produced over 2000kits from late 80’s to 2010. The design evolved over that time and they offered a few variants. Mine has 80hp rotax with a constant speed prop.
@@SKYHILLMIKE are you going to do another flight soon. Went over swan port bridge Friday(23rd) and level was up, went past again Sunday (27th) and the level has definitely risen.
Would like to have listened to your dialog and the view, shame the doof-doof +. But good to see your experience with your young lad. Nice to hear his experience also. Guess the previous levy didn't take into account man made intervention, but can still see the alluvial flats of decades past. Good the MDBA finally opened some barriers to flow.
Thanks for your feedback, I try to have the music as background music. It’s running about 30dB lower than voice but that’s a bit of an arbitrary figure probably depends then how high you have your volume and distance you sit from speakers. I appreciate the feedback. Must admit I didn’t spend as much time as I would have liked on the edit but 24minute video to film and post in a few days took 25hrs of computer work atleast and that’s a rush job. I guess my main aim is to share the view. Many like the dialog to keep it interesting Thanks mate
Thank for your great view and information. Where are you based. Are you on the Murray Bridge to mannum rd? I live across from mannum waters and do remember you flying over when you said the date in the video. It's unbelievable how many different aircrafts go by every day. It's crazy. Cheers Shaun 👍
Yeah there training aircraft from Murray Bridge and Rollos airfields plus the Parafield training aircraft flying to the Mallee for navigation exercises.
Thanks mate. I’m fly the river again tomorrow.Flying from Bordertown would be a good lap. Guess you will fly north up the border then follow the river?
Brilliant video and I especially liked how you showed Pellaring Flat and Kia Marina and the Murray Mouth was fascinating. Great commentary and the added titles on the screen of your videos certainly helps us get our bearings of what you are actually flying over. It was also interesting to see the different areas that our friends have shacks at. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos. Well Done!!!
Thanks for the detailed comment, appreciate the feedback. I hope to get some more flights done, hard to squeeze in not only the flight but the editing. I’m trying to put them out as quick as possible.
All "appears" dry but our native grasses and wheat/crop stubble are brown giving that perception. The soil is very damp this year (22) as we have had about 120mm more rain than our area average. So appearances can be deceiving 🤗😁
Floods all over Australia and we do not even bother to demand action, to build dams ,irrigation and pump systems, deepen rivers and build big levee- criminal negligence. And no water for tommorow, for farmers, for animals...insanity!!!!
I thought farmer irrigators could have made resivors and fill them up, I don’t know if it’s true but I read somewhere farmers asked if they can pump water out of the river for free while it’s in flood and they were told they will still have to pay normal rate. So much water coming into system it would probably make little difference anyway. I agree it’s good for the Murray to flow, but it also seems like a god idea to store some water for the next season.
Great to see south Australia our police state, from Thailand , after being deported . for talking to a coppers son about his corrupt father misconduct , it was no longer save for me after 55 years in Australia . i mis the rive . its unique . i just came from Holland , with there water ways an marine travic
Thank you wonderful coverage of the mighty Murray loved it. My mum lives on the Marne river mouth good to see again. Fish
Thanks. I will be doing another flight this week. It surprised me how flooded that area was flooded at the Marne River mouth.
Quality information and great communication, delivered while flying confidently.
Thanks mate, such a nice comment.
Wow this is a great perspective, unreal thanks for sharing, brilliant 👍🏽
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks from the UK. That was a nice little jaunt around the flooded areas.
Glad you enjoyed it
Great vid 👍 looking forward to seeing the next one
Thanks, number 3 should be live soon, and currently editing number 4 now.
That was awesome seeing how the floods have gone down the river.
Thanks, I’ve still got another video coming filmed that day.
Wow, what an amazing video that puts it all in perspective, that is a lot of water coming through the Murray mouth and out to sea. Enjoyed your editorial and knowledge,
Thank you
Thankyou. We got more footage today from a flight editing now.
Bloody brilliant!! Thanks for the ride along....
Thanks mate
Great video. Thank you
WOW!! That was just unreal!! Thank you for filming this and showing it - Incredible footage
Thanks, check out my latest number 3
Thanks again Mike.
Looking forward for the next
Thanks, stay tuned
whoooo beautiful video checking in from Callington
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for commenting
Thanks fellas great perspective, I worked there a few years ago at Mypolonga on the water line, brings back memories great video Paul
Thanks mate.
Awesum footage, watching from NZ, my sister lives in Adelaide, been all around that area but great to view from above. Thanks 😊
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it mate. We spent a month in NZ a year ago was awesome hopefully we can take the kids back and ski there.
Brilliant, thanks for sharing.
Thanks mate
As an old river rat circa 1953 you have shown me a brand new view of my motherland. Thank you.
Thanks, I fly for the view as much as any other reason to fly. It’s awesome to see the Murray carve its way through such a dry landscape and flow out to sea.
@@SKYHILLMIKE Mike, you also fly so that your son can explain to you that the difference between fresh and seawater is attributable to the relative densities. Explain wind shear to him in similar terms. Cheers.
Amazing thankyou for sharing
No worries thankyou
Amazing to see the river in flood. A great history piece - well done.
Thanks, I’m flying agin tomorrow to get an update
Awesome footage , so cool you share these experiences with your son. Also your very knowledgeable with all your landmarks thanks for sharing . Fly safe
Thanks for watching! Yeah it’s awesome sharing these adventures with the wife and kids. Son was falling to sleep today. We flew today and got some more footage of Renmark to Wongulla.
Excelent: content and quality. These are places where I have gone boating many times, and punts on which I have crossed many times. This video has been better than any put up by the tv/newspaper channels.
Thanks for the kind words. We crossed the river today and drove along some of it and visited Mannum, from the ground it’s just not possible to take it all in, its definitely a different perspective. We saw a few business with water through them and others on the dry side of the levy bank pumping out cellars/basements that I’m guessing is floods from water soaking through underground or drain flowing backwards.
That was great, cheers for the upload
Thanks
No worries I still have another video coming shortly
Top stuff. Really good.
Thanks mate
Great Video Mike,, Awesome to see the river from above. Thanks
Thanks mate
Interesting, thanks. Fascinating to see all of the little towns that we normally only see from the road, gives it a whole new perspective. Impressive flow out into the ocean as well.
Thanks for watching and commenting. Yeah it was awesome to see the water flowing out to sea.
Great informative video. Fantastic to see all those places that I have been to by car from the aerial perspective
Glad you enjoyed it
That's a big river and covers a lot of ground, thanks for the coverage,
very informative.
Thanks for commenting. UA-cam’s with commentary and info are much more interesting than video only
Thanks for all the great videos this year. Have a fun, merry Chrissy with your mob 😊
Thanks for the nice comments mate. Merry Xmas
Another great video. Thank you.
Thanks mate
great video mate awesome
Thanks
Thanks Mike 👍👍 A great video...informative as well as visually stunning. That landing was so good!!!
Yeah was too good not to share landing. Wife did a good job filming.
Thanks for sharing a great video guys, puts a lot of things in to prospective
Thanks mate, definitely a good view to take it all in. It’s like a very detailed map from up there.
Fantastic overview .
Will be historic footage for sure.
Thanks a few have said that. Gives a good over view I guess
Thanks, yeah could be a long time before we see this again
Thank you, great video. We live at Goolwa and also have a houseboat at Kia Marina - so was great to see all of this!
Thanks. Yeah it’s a View not many get to see so I thought I should share it with everyone
First class view of the lower Murray region, Mike. We're another 350km south-east of TB so any trips to Adelaide only provide a very limited view of the flooding.
Thanks, yeah I grew up 100km east of Tailem Bend, I would get excited when we saw the water crossing the river at Murray Bridge, you would see it for a few seconds and that was it. To fly over it for 3 hrs is obviously a great experience especially while in flood
Thanks for the great arial views. Waved when you came over the house but you were a bit far away to see 🥴😋
As most of the fields have just been harvested and very late in the season because of the rain we had, they had to wait for crops to dry, makes the countryside look a lot drier than it is. Great shots tho. Happy new year to you and your family 🎇🎆
Yeah normally they are all done by Xmas but they are still harvesting in the area. Thanks for waving 😃
Good one Mickey !!!
Great video loved it
First time I met you you were about as old as your son
Cheers Steve Pap
Time fly’s
Thanks Paps, yeah probaly my daughters age, 8 or 9. Time does fly when ur…….flying 🤦🏼♂️
Thank you for such a great video. Puts it all into perspective. That's a whole lot of water coming down and out to sea. Incredible and sad at the same time for the shack and business owners along there.
I agree, it’s amazing to see the scale of the flood but destroying some property at the same time.
Thankyou that was fabulous. Have a Merry Christmas & New Year.
I really enjoyed this. Very informative.
Thanks for letting me know, good encouragement for me to keep going.
bloody brillant Mike & Son , really enjoyed, hope you do another when the floods are peaking this end of town in Jan
Thanks for the encouragement. Yes plan on doing more flights and videos.
Love your posts Mike. From WA , have no idea how this is afffecting everyone until we see your posts, thanks for sharing. Best wishes to all for quick recovery.
Thanks. Even living close to the river without flying over it I didn’t realise the extent of how many houses where already flooded.
Thanks I had no idea either until I flew over the river, u don’t get to see much from the ground in comparison.
That was terrific what a great flight. I live up the other end of the Murray at Rutherglen near Wodonga and the Hume Dam and watching the water spilling over the wall through eleven gates was amazing We also went up to Dartmouth dam not long after it overflowed and cascaded down the quarry where the rock for the wall was sourced. The overflow was running at 9.3 gigalitres a day and all of that was going into Lake Hume as well as what was coming down the Murray which at that stage was 14 gigalitres a day. Those inflows went higher after that due to rain and snowmelt. I have been in this area for 40 years and it is the first time I have seen the Murray run past us at summer irrigation level right through the winter trying to get a reasonable air gap in Lake Hume. it's hard to imagine that most of this water fell as rain 4 to 6 months ago.
Thanks mate, yeah I can’t get my head around that the water flowing into SA a DAY has been more than what SA households use in a YEAR. It’s such an impressive amount of water. We just spent a week on Lake Eildon and was great to see it full. We have been on the Hume before, it would be good to see it now. I think when we were last there it was on the high side but I’m sure it would be even higher now.
Thanks for the interesting comment
Good job lads 👍👍
Thanks
Thanks mike, have friends on the murray at Glenlock and further south, lots of damage, saw it last in early eightys
That’s a long time to not have seen the river. Where’s Glenlock?
Great work guys, thanks for sharing this footage, so cool to see from the air. Merry Christmas
Thanks mate, appreciate the comment. Merry xmas
Another great video, very helpful that you identified even the tiny settlements. I’m learning to fly at Aldinga so any small plane footage is great. John
Thanks mate, if you haven’t already follow flightchops, Trent Palmer, aviation101, fly8ma,
I realised people were asking and talking about the smaller settlements to so I thought I’d label what I could and show more and not chop too much out. Which made for a longer video than my first flood video
thank you, thank you, we never realize the extent of the flood, so thank you for showing it to us, well done, well explained and all the best to you and family, hope you have a great year
Thanks for the appreciation mate. I didn’t realise the extent until my first flight over the flooded river. I flew the river again on Monday and I’m currently editing it.
Great video 🙂
Thank you 😁
Amazing seeing the river water mix with the sea.
Was epic to see it.
That was awesome, you get a much better picture from up there! Would love to able to fly over it all! Was in Morgan the other day & couldn't believe how wide the river was!
Thanks, next section I want to cover Walker Flat, Morgan, Waikerie. Would like to make it to the border aswell
@@SKYHILLMIKE Cool, I bet Ned's corner would look interesting too
Where’s Ned’s Corner. Is it at Morgan?
@@SKYHILLMIKE Nah Ned's corner is just over the border near Lake Victoria, great camping spot.
Thanks Mike & son ✈️ 👏
I live in Loxton South Australia, and this is one of the best videos you've ever done so far, I would like to see more of this.
If not, I would like to hire your service so I can record the flood areas.
Is your home damaged?
@@SouthTrainsAndPlanes I live on Schick Street in Loxton Hollywood area, and I'm actually safe, because I have research into Floods, Fires and Earthquakes risk areas before I bought myself a new property, that is one thing that people do fail to do so.
@@stargalacticfederation well be glad you put in the extra effort
Just shows how many trees have been cut down would love to see an overlay from the past
Another great video Mike - saved me from a long drive out there - & with a much better/ wider view! R u going do another one near the Xmas/ NY flood peak?
Thanks, yeah I will try get another flight or 2 in around peak timing.
@@SKYHILLMIKE Good commentary - with plenty of place names & text added - so I can compare with "dry" views on Google Earth etc. 🙂
Great video! May I ask what sort of aircraft you are flying?
Thanks mate, Rans S6S which is a common kit or factory built plane in USA. They have produced over 2000kits from late 80’s to 2010. The design evolved over that time and they offered a few variants.
Mine has 80hp rotax with a constant speed prop.
Thanks for a very historic moment in time flight. And That landing was butter👍
Thanks for hanging in till the end to see my landing. Wish they were all that good.
@@SKYHILLMIKE are you going to do another flight soon. Went over swan port bridge Friday(23rd) and level was up, went past again Sunday (27th) and the level has definitely risen.
Really shows how much water is thumping down the Murray at the moment! Thoughts to all those people who have property under water at the moment!
Yeah it’s amazing to think of the volume of water.
It’s amazing to see but it’s impacting so many lives.
Would like to have listened to your dialog and the view, shame the doof-doof +. But good to see your experience with your young lad. Nice to hear his experience also.
Guess the previous levy didn't take into account man made intervention, but can still see the alluvial flats of decades past. Good the MDBA finally opened some barriers to flow.
Thanks for your feedback, I try to have the music as background music. It’s running about 30dB lower than voice but that’s a bit of an arbitrary figure probably depends then how high you have your volume and distance you sit from speakers. I appreciate the feedback. Must admit I didn’t spend as much time as I would have liked on the edit but 24minute video to film and post in a few days took 25hrs of computer work atleast and that’s a rush job. I guess my main aim is to share the view. Many like the dialog to keep it interesting Thanks mate
Thank for your great view and information. Where are you based. Are you on the Murray Bridge to mannum rd? I live across from mannum waters and do remember you flying over when you said the date in the video. It's unbelievable how many different aircrafts go by every day. It's crazy. Cheers Shaun 👍
Yeah there training aircraft from Murray Bridge and Rollos airfields plus the Parafield training aircraft flying to the Mallee for navigation exercises.
Thanks very much fellows , hope to do a flight from Bordertown very soon .
Thanks mate. I’m fly the river again tomorrow.Flying from Bordertown would be a good lap. Guess you will fly north up the border then follow the river?
Brilliant video and I especially liked how you showed Pellaring Flat and Kia Marina and the Murray Mouth was fascinating. Great commentary and the added titles on the screen of your videos certainly helps us get our bearings of what you are actually flying over. It was also interesting to see the different areas that our friends have shacks at. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos. Well Done!!!
Thanks for the detailed comment, appreciate the feedback. I hope to get some more flights done, hard to squeeze in not only the flight but the editing. I’m trying to put them out as quick as possible.
You must be the guy I have seen flying over me all the time
Maybe, I’m probably high enough up that all planes look a bit the same. I normally fly about once a month or less.
The surrounding land looks dry / parched?? Unusual to see this juxtaposition of a flooded river in an otherwise dry landscape.
Yeah it is amazing to see. Even when it’s not in flood it’s awesome to see the river “full” through our dry landscape
All "appears" dry but our native grasses and wheat/crop stubble are brown giving that perception. The soil is very damp this year (22) as we have had about 120mm more rain than our area average. So appearances can be deceiving 🤗😁
Floods all over Australia and we do not even bother to demand action, to build dams ,irrigation and pump systems, deepen rivers and build big levee- criminal negligence. And no water for tommorow, for farmers, for animals...insanity!!!!
In times of floods it does seem like a missed opportunity to store more water. In SA we don’t seem to get “floods” as often as the eastern states.
All this water and not one word on how to retain it ???
I thought farmer irrigators could have made resivors and fill them up, I don’t know if it’s true but I read somewhere farmers asked if they can pump water out of the river for free while it’s in flood and they were told they will still have to pay normal rate. So much water coming into system it would probably make little difference anyway. I agree it’s good for the Murray to flow, but it also seems like a god idea to store some water for the next season.
Great to see south Australia our police state, from Thailand , after being deported . for talking to a coppers son about his corrupt father misconduct , it was no longer save for me after 55 years in Australia . i mis the rive . its unique . i just came from Holland , with there water ways an marine travic
thats the end the coorong mullet for a long time 🙁