Australia Day QF A380

[Kurt A]

Qantas confirms it will fly one of its A380's at low altitude over Sydney Harbour on 26 Jan.

The aircraft will fly over the Sydney Harbour Bridge between 3.10pm and 3.20pm.

[AdamB]

My spy tells me 6000ft

[NickN]

6000ft, forget any photos then!

It's a shame it couldn't be something like 2000ft or better.

[Sarmad Al-Khozaie]

6000 ft ? Miles well make it FL 360 contrails with harbour bridge will be priceless.

[NickN]

Isn't 6000ft the inbound traffic pattern altitude? And 5000ft for outbound traffic?

[Kurt A]

My spy originally quoted 6000 metres..... which is even worse!! That clearly does not constitue "low altitude" - hence why I refrained from reproducing that part of the text

Let's hope it was a typo, because even at 6000ft; realistically that's still quite high, and would be of no more impact than any other commercial aircraft usually seen at a similar height, let's say... even 15-20 DME or further from YSSY

[Sarmad Al-Khozaie]

6000 ft is just a waste of time and fuel to be honest. I guess QF has money to burn now.

Chris D, I guess the TSV DJ fly over was better then QF's upcoming attempt.

[Marty H]

Originally Posted by chris d

So, low altitude huh? Like the low-altitude E190 at the TSV Defence Force airshow I bet.. Well - here is hoping 500mm+ and a helicopter will do the trick.

Yeah will be something like that

[AdamB]

My "spy" is real & valid. I won't name him for privacy reasons but will say that he's been at Qantas for at least 20 years in a technical role. I was fortunate enough to be with him on the base last year when some large clouds started rolling in so he took me to the flight deck of a 744 to have a look on the radar, so yes, he's real! And yes, I'm bragging

[Mark W]

The fly past will be at 2,100ft.