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Adriatic Airports as Possible Crew Training Locations

In the light of current trends, Croatia has a significant potential in satisfying the huge European market for pilot training. The comparative advantages of Croatia with relation to the other States of the western and central Europe are better weather conditions, existence of adequate infrastructure, smaller distance from the overseas competitors and cheaper labour. This paper analyses three Adriatic airports as potential training centres: Rijeka, Pula and Lošinj. Using comparison analysis of certain infrastructure elements of the analysed airports, results in the conclusion that all the three airports satisfy the conditions for establishing a training flight centre with minor reconstruction of the infrastructure. Regarding traffic, all the three airports have a very low and markedly seasonal traffic, and may be considered almost completely free for flight training. Here, Rijeka Airport stands out, whose main disadvantage is the relatively great number of days with strong winds outside the season. Since without major investments in infrastructure the Lošinj Airport is suitable only for visual training, certain advantage can be given to the Pula Airport.

Flight Crew Training Centre; Flight Crew Licensing; JAA requirements; ICAO standards; Worldwide Licensing standards

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