It’s not easy to find out who’s right and who’s wrong here because these finding were not publicaly disclosed. From my experiance (when I owned TB20 at Croatian registry) I got Level 1 finding because CAA had the opinion that last overhaul placard had to be sticked to prop which was complete nonsense. I gave them 24 hours to delete this finding (not only to lower the level) before suing them in fron of the court. Next morning I got ARC on my desk. If ECA has strong arguments they can fight CAA legaly and sue them for lost profit.
Pilot_DAR wrote:
we would have been stuck there.
I would go out of my way to get stuck in Como.
I had my first and only experience with seaplanes in Como and has it on my list to go back and get the rating one day
Impressive!
I tried to arrange to land in Lake Como as we crossed Europe, but their “open hours” were so short (on a magnificent weather weekend) that I simply could not stop for a visit, we would have been stuck there.
Stickandrudderman wrote:
The seaplane operation in Croatia has closed its doors already, allegedly because of excessive beaurocratic meddling
Well, not completely… I was permitted, with some arranging, to land in Split harbour last July, though I did understand it to have been special permission.
ECA has been dealt a difficult blow, and I have the best wishes for them coming through it.
Some of the harbours along the coast were very tempting!
I would be amazed if they made money. The Jadrolinia ferries are brilliant and cost virtually nothing (of the order of a few euros) and you can take your car, so the seaplane ops will be attracting just a very small spillover. They are limited on the sea state (the wind) so I am not surprised they packed it up at this time of the year.
My information is that “Croatian politics” is already involved….
According to my sources, ECA operations have been suspended, not terminated; but they did blame excessive bureaucracy. Perhaps only a way to increase pressure and/or get publicity and/or get politics involved? The timing, at the end of the tourist season, is, err, shall we say, err, remarkable. Let us hope the best for them!
The seaplane operation in Croatia has closed its doors already, allegedly because of excessive beaurocratic meddling.
Wow..
Shall we just all move to North America there and rename this to NAGA?
We just barely managed to get some sort of a permit to operate seaplanes in Pollensa, Majorca. Probably gets shut down the millisecond that ‘something’ happens.
