Its all very quiet down here too.
Being in Melbourne, we're not under many flightpaths, other than Auckland-(Perth)-Johannesburg, but we used to have a regular array of flights come over our place usually ML to Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, LA, Sydney, Canberra, and a few other bits and bobs depending on winds and SID (Standard Instrument Departure) routes.
We see hardly anything now.
Qantas sent it's last 747-400 on an East Coast goodbye visit this week and was selling tickets for Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra (but not Melbourne, see below) joy flights. These were classed as commercial flights, so me and my mate (a Qantas LAME) were speculating that if the Mojave mothballed A380s don't return to service with Qantas (Which is possible, depending what happens post-Covid), the 747 will have outlasted it in Qantas commercial service!
Wouldnt that be an irony!
We were supposed to have restrictions ease a bit this month, with Qantas to restart normal domestic operations at about 30% capacity. But as Melbourne has returned into stage 3 Covid restrictions following a major outbreak (2nd wave If you like, except it was totally preventable), the flights haven't returned down here (outside of freight/postal/essential services).
Sydney is also experiencing a couple of outbreaks, so they may need to reimpose restrictions too.
Meanwhile, we're just waiting for numbers to drop again...
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Marty
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Current:
2001 Audi S8 - Brilliant Black with Black interior, C5 RS6 rims (whenever I actually put them on...), Solar Sunroof, Tinted side and rear glass, RNS-D, Grom, Bose, clunky old phone in arm rest!
2002 Audi S8 - Project
Replacement head coming arrived  thanks to MJ
Silver with Black interior. All features as the '01, with the 'S' mode auto shifter. Dodgey rear tint (need to find a way to get rid of that).
Family:
2009 Volvo XC90 V8 R Design - has a louder more obnoxious exhaust than the S8, sounds great! Love this thing - Q7 was double the price, and certainly not double the car!
Sold:
1997 Audi A4 - Hamilton's Club Sport, Achat Grey (will miss the old girl)
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