🇦🇺 Australia in Skydex

Australia is one giant island on the Skydex map — 35 cities, almost all on the coast. The interior is desert all the way down; the coastline is where the flying is.

Fly over Australia →

Seen on the water around Australia last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed

1,086 vessels on 31 days · 8,126 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 804 of them.

📡 687 of them were heard by a Skydex volunteer receiver rather than by the upstream feed. Run one here

Counted from the AIS positions the Skydex feed received here — sampled once a day in local daytime, plus whenever pilots fly here — not a port register. Ship tracking

Activity in Australia

Busiest cities this week

  1. 1Sydney12 flights · 1 pilot
  2. 2Melbourne2 flights
  3. 3Brisbane1 flights
  4. 4Gold Coast1 flights
Today5 flights1 pilot5 visits
This week17 flights1 pilot17 visits
This month122 flights7 pilots122 visits

Visitors came from 4 countries this month.

“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.

Recent activity across Australia

Flying spots in Australia

🛩 Where to fly a drone in Australia →

35 cities you can fly

Sydney
4,630k pop · -33.87°, 151.21°
Melbourne
4,170k pop · -37.82°, 144.97°
Brisbane
1,860k pop · -27.45°, 153.03°
Perth
1,532k pop · -31.95°, 115.84°
Adelaide
1,145k pop · -34.93°, 138.60°
Newcastle
541k pop · -32.93°, 151.77°
Gold Coast
528k pop · -28.08°, 153.45°
Canberra
328k pop · -35.28°, 149.13°
Cairns
154k pop · -16.89°, 145.76°
Townsville
139k pop · -19.25°, 146.77°
Darwin
93k pop · -12.43°, 130.85°
Bendigo
82k pop · -36.76°, 144.28°
Hobart
81k pop · -42.85°, 147.29°
Mandurah
73k pop · -32.52°, 115.75°
Rockhampton
66k pop · -23.36°, 150.52°
Orange
39k pop · -33.28°, 149.10°
Kalgoorlie
37k pop · -30.73°, 121.46°
Mount Isa
33k pop · -20.72°, 139.49°
Dubbo
32k pop · -32.26°, 148.60°
Alice Springs
28k pop · -23.70°, 133.88°
Geraldton
27k pop · -28.77°, 114.60°
Albany
26k pop · -35.02°, 117.89°
Armidale
23k pop · -30.51°, 151.67°
Whyalla
23k pop · -33.02°, 137.56°
Devonport
19k pop · -41.19°, 146.33°
Broken Hill
17k pop · -31.95°, 141.43°
Karratha
17k pop · -20.73°, 116.87°
Griffith
15k pop · -34.29°, 146.04°
Port Hedland
14k pop · -20.31°, 118.61°
Wangaratta
14k pop · -36.36°, 146.30°
Port Lincoln
14k pop · -34.73°, 135.87°
Broome
13k pop · -17.96°, 122.23°
Busselton
10k pop · -33.66°, 115.35°
Katherine
10k pop · -14.47°, 132.27°
Windorah
0k pop · -25.43°, 142.65°