ALTITUDE. It is good airmanship, and also the law, to maintain a safe altitude at all times and to ensure that when flying over residential areas this is maintained. Except when in the act of landing or taking off the minimum height fixed wing aircraft will fly at is 1,000 feet over inhabited areas and 500 feet over uninhabited areas or the sea. Night circuits must not be conducted at a height less than 1,000 feet. CASA may approve aircraft operations to routinely operate at lower altitudes, such as emergency service aircraft (e.g. Police, bushfire water bombers, search and rescue operations) and special types of air work for which the operator has a permit (e.g. media helicopters, aerial surveying and environmental spraying). There may also be times where aircraft need to fly at lower heights due to the weather (e.g. low cloud).
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Sources: Fly Friendly Agreement, Fly Friendly Agreement