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General notes

To fly in Croatia you need at least the Private Pilot License (PPL). A Medical, at least class two (JAR) is mandatory. 

Croatia finally became a Full JAA Member in March 2004., but as we are still not in EU, validations/nostrifications are required.

Rights and laws will be harmonized in accordance to JAA, and licences changed to JAR-FCL. You still have to do a validation of your native licence. Validation costs: cca 65 EUR. Validation can, at this time, only be done in Zagreb at the Ministry of Transport.

In Croatia you can find the usually single and twin-engined Cessnas and Pipers to rent such as C172, Piper PA28 or Piper Seneca. The owners are aeroclubs or private persons.

If you are PPL licensed and you rent a plane, you will usually get a safety pilot (on some routes mandatory). This safety pilot is very well experienced and he/she must be in common with the local area where you are going to fly.

Here in Croatia you pay flying hours from the a/c totalizer. It depends on the arrangement, but the landing fees (at international airports) and other aerodrome taxes must be paid, too. Fuel is available at all international airports and at some smaller airfield. The fuel prices are weekly updated.

There are not yet full published croatian VFR Charts, but on request you will get recommended charts with all information you need. You can find croatian route charts in the Bottlang Manual and Trip Kits. IFR charts are well covered by Jeppesen. Pilots are recommended to use published VFR routes (e.g. ADRIA1), whenever practicable and not to plan their routes over CTRs. I would also advice to avoid flying into Split (LDSP) and Dubrovnik (LDDU) on Saturdays and Sundays during peak summer season where a lot of airliner traffic and charter flights visit the croatian Adria coast. Please have also in mind that in Croatia ATC will often not issue a clearence for your flight if the flight plan is not properly filled out and sent at least 60 minutes before estimated time of departure.Minimum safe height over cities and other populated areas shall be at least 1000 ft above heighest obstacle within a radius of 600 metresfrom aircraft's position and elsewhere at least 500 ft above ground or water. Important is also the regulation that aircraft shall not be flown below bridges and similiar constructions, nor below overhead lines and antennas. As you can see on the charts there are a lot of Danger (for example LD(D)20) and Restricted areas (for example LD(R)18). These areas are active only if notified by NOTAM. Danger areas should be avoided and flight through restricted area will be give upon the request of the pilot. The TA and TL in Croatia is 9500 ft or FL095. Below 9500 ft you have to set QNH from the nearest airport.

There are recommended VFR routes published in the croatian VFR AIC. The new VFR AIC you can order at Croatia Control.

There are no known published VFR approach plates for croatian airports so far.

For flights leaving the local aerodrome control zone you need to file a flight plan and send it to air traffic control center via fax. Don't forget always to close your flight plan. :-)

Much up-to-date Infos you can get on the local ARO Offices.