Helicopter Filming

Here is how this works in practice. We give helicopter filming services for shoots that need large-scale aerial coverage beyond the range of a drone. Features, commercials and documentary needing altitude, speed and long sweeping moves. Our crews work with gyro-stabilised camera mounts on helicopters, capturing the Dalmatian coast. The thousand islands of the Adriatic, the Velebit and Dinaric mountains and the cascading national parks from the air. We set up the aircraft, the qualified aerial camera ops and pilot, and the camera system, and we plan flight paths, refuelling and positioning around the shot list. The bura wind is a constant planning factor for rotary-wing aerial work on the Adriatic. Our teams build weather backup into the schedule, briefing the production on the windows when conditions suit high-altitude filming.

Here is the short of it. Helicopter filming in Croatia operates under the Croatian Civil Aviation Agency and EU aviation rules, with approvals for low-level and aerial-work flights and planning with air-traffic and airport authorities. Flights over the dense walled cores of Dubrovnik and Split. Over covered national parks such as Plitvice and Krka, need permits and careful planning. This we arrange alongside HAVC and the regional film commissions. HAVC, the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, administers the 'Filming in Croatia' 25% cash rebates.

Here is the breakdown. This extends to aerial service shoots qualifying on local spend. Our crews carry the insurance and records that aviation authorities. TV networks and location managers need. They plan helicopter operations around light, weather and the airspace constraints that apply across Croatia's coast, islands and mountain regions.