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SA Tourism travel blog Meet Doug Sprigg, an outback pilot who spends his days flying over the wild frontiers of his backyard, the vast South Australian outback. His flight path covers 800,000 square kilometres, an area bigger than Belgium, Netherlands and France combined. The 66-year-old runs and lives at Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary in the farthest reaches of the Flinders Ranges and says it’s craggy peeks, towering ridgelines and sweeping gorges are best explored from the air. A diesel mechanic and pilot by trade, and historian, geologist, and biologist in knowledge alone, for 30 years, ...

The outback comprises 70 per cent of Australia – that's 5.6 million square kilometres; half the size of Western and Eastern Europe combined. This back of beyond defines Australia, and Australians, and yet for most of us, it's as foreign as any country. Who among us has ever really seen it, let alone know where it quite begins and where it quite ends? See Also Getting there from a capital can takes days of driving; and once you're there it takes days to get anywhere else. That's why it's largely the domain of adventurous, time-rich grey nomads in four-wheel drives with enough grunt to pull t...