1-Hour Whitsunday Islands and Heart Reef Scenic Flight
Description
An amazing and unforgettable experience. This is our most popular flight and with great reason! Combining both the Whitsunday Islands and Great Barrier Reef in one including the world famous Heart Reef! Departing from the iconic Shute Harbour airport, only 9 mins drive from Airlie Beach main street. Enjoy the iconic scenery as you soar in our specially designed scenic flight fixed wing aircraft, featuring overhead high wings and large panoramic windows ensuring unobstructed views. Your pilot will point out land marks to ensure all on board have time to capture that special shot and take in the beauty. Includes the Whitsunday Islands, Hill Inlet and Whitehaven Beach, The Great Barrier Reef and Heart Reef! All passengers are Guaranteed a window seat. Live commentary during your entire flight. Fly Australia is committed to sustainability through responsible environmental and cultural practices and actions towards conservation and climate change. Duration: 60 - 70 mins.
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Itinerary
Arriving at the Fly Australia Passenger lounge you will be met by your local experienced pilot who will fill you in on the tour ahead. We will board the aircraft and take off for our tour over the beautiful Whitsundays and Great Barrier Reef. Remember to bring your camera, there will be unlimited photo opportunities!
The Whitsundays Scenic Flight takes you over some of Australia's most iconic and beautiful landscapes including the World Heritage Great Barrier Reef & breathtaking islands of the Whitsundays. You will enjoy panoramic sights from the comfort of our seat in our specially designed scenic flight aircraft. This is a must do!
The Heart of the Reef! Your pilot will make gentle turns around the magical Heart Reef to ensure all on board have time to capture that perfect shot and take in the iconic sights below.
Pass overhead the beautiful swirling sands and Crystal blue waters of Hill Inlet, your pilot will make two passes of this iconic Whitsundays location to ensure all passengers have a great view and time to take in the Beauty.
During the flight we will spend time at the Great Barrier Reef, flying at low level you will see amazing sights below. Often marine life is spotted including whales, Manta rays and sharks. Your pilot again will make multiple passes of the Reef to ensure all enjoy amazing views and have time to take in the sights below of this natural wonder of the world. The Great Barrier Reef!
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
If Being picked up from Travel Shack Airlie Beach - 40 mins prior to departure time, The van will be waiting on the main road outside of Travel Shack at Waterson Way If Being Picked up from Port of Airlie - pick up will be 35 mins prior to departure time, in front of the Cruise Whitsundays Terminal – Passenger loading zone (Across zebra crossing) Please ensure you are at the pickup location on time
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Important Information
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Due to comfort and weight / balance limits of the aircraft, Maximum passengers weight is 130KG
- Flight time is an estimate and dependent on weather, wind, cloud, other air traffic, air traffic control. The flight time may vary slightly as a result.
- Due to comfort and weight and balance, our aircraft seats have a weight limit of 130KG and we will need to weight every passenger during the check-in process, if you are over weight at the time we are unable to take you on as a passenger on the scenic flight, and no refunds will be provided. If you are close to our aircraft seat limit of 130KG please weight yourself a few days before the flight. If you determine that you are unfit to go on the scenic flight and notify us before 24 hours of the scenic flight departure time we will be able to provide a change a date or refund.
- We will try our best at accommodating passengers seating requests, however, passengers within the same booking group may not be seated together due to weight and balances of the aircraft to ensure the safety of flight operation.
- This activity is a weather dependent activity.
- You will receive a confirmation email after your booking. Please note a confirmation email is a notification that we have received your booking but it can be subject to change due to weather, weight and balance of our aircraft, minimum passenger requirements and opeartional requirements.
- Please provide us with accurate contact information
- Passengers with medical conditions that may be affected by flight should consult a doctor before booking and inform us.
- Appropriate clothing and footwear must be worn
Reviews(806)
The flight was fantastic. Well worth it. It lasted an hour but the memories will last forever. Chris was amazing and a skilled pilot.
This was fabulous! What an incredible experience. Beautiful. Professional team. Highly recommend. Perfect views. Spectacular scenery.
A beautiful experience to have, just be sure to check the weather because it was rather cloudy and gray for us, and we asked the provider if it would be better to move to another day; he replied that moving away from the coast, there were no clouds, but it was just as cloudy.
Amazing experience and staff are so friendly we had a great pilot
The largest coral reef in the world could not be seen only by snorkeling but had to be seen from above, and so we did before leaving by booking a scenic flight. With two of our companions and four other people, we boarded a small plane and flew over this stunning coral reef. There are no words to describe the beauty you see, something I have never seen in my life, and I am so happy to have experienced it.
Sensational trip. The pilot gave a great commentary and the views were spectacular. Well worth the cost
Loved the fabulous views of the Whitsundays and the Barrier Reef. Very professional organisation, would recommend this operator.
Can highly recommend this flight. Never been in a light plane before & totally enjoyed it. Tour guides very knowledgeable & ensured everyone on board got the chance to see everything.
This was the best trip we ace ever done, it was unbelievable and something we will never forget. It always so well planned and it was so good. Would recommend to anyone and is a must to see the Great Barrier Reef
I was really looking forward to this trip - bucket list item. When it came to sitting in the plane, I was left with the front seat. Cool you might think, but no. The seat had to be pushed way forward so there is no view out a window that is not obstructed by the plane. The steering (whatever) control pops out and with the bum bag style safety vest around you it's starting to get squishy. Need to be careful with feet so don't hit the pedals and then another thing pops out right by your knee and you can't touch it. Add the headphones and it's just more. To take a photo, have to contort yourself backwards and even then it's tricky to get one without the plane in it. When we got out to the reef we were there for maybe 5 minutes. Overall I was quite disappointed and it wasn't an inexpensive event.
The front seat is considered by many the best seat in the house! it offers amazing views, and a personal flying experience with all the controls visible along with the beautiful scenery below. I guess some people just cant be pleased ;) hope you had a great trip! and we wish you safe travels ahead.
