I believe it was around 12:30-1:00 a.m. I was the only aircraft moving on or in the vicinity of the field from what I could tell. It was the night after Thanksgiving so that probably helped a good bit. I've flown over ATL a couple times at 2-4am and there was still traffic arriving, so your...
Once I was talking to tower, the low approach was approved. Before that though, I could not get that request approved when I was talking to approach. Can't say why approach couldn't get it approved ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This past Thanksgiving I decided to try getting an approach into ATL without filing the airport as a destination. I knew filing ATL as a destination would probably be the easiest route but I didn't want to have stop there or buy AvGas on the field. I filed an IFR flight plan with ATL as an...