Croatia

CroatiaThe flight from Pribram in the Czech Republic  to Split in Croatia takes about three hours, Dubrovnik takes half an hour more and Zadar about 20 minutes less. It is important, however, to plan the flight in such a way as not to arrive just before sunset when gusty strong wind starts blowing down the mountains. The runway of Split airport is perpendicular to it and that makes a landing sometime impossible.

The Air Traffic Control (ATC) dispatchers usually want VFR traffic (most of the small aircraft) to fly alongside pre-set VFR routes (Adria 1, Adria 2 etc.). The objective is to get a better control of the traffic and its effective separation from the transport aircraft. I have flown alongside the Croatia coast at least ten times because it is the route for Cyprus, Greece and even southern Italy, Malta and Sicily.

Most of the photos in this section were taken by Mr Dvorak the head of iDnes portal´s blog section, during our joint trip to Croatia.