I found out. It’s not so much a flight planning issue. You need to have diplomatic clearances depending on who you are and where you want to go to. Politics play a role.
I don’t know. I only can guess that departing from Prishtina you have to specify BKPR in flight plan rather than LYPR.
Serbian CAA’s NOTAMs don’t specify anything:
http://www.smatsa.rs/NOTAM/LVN%20A.pdf local copy
@Emir what about the other way around? From Pristina to Belgrade
Stephan_Schwab wrote:
BKPR Pristina
If flying from Belgrade be sure to file LYPR rather than BKPR otherwise you won’t take off 
Stephan_Schwab wrote:
BKPR
Let’s hope there will be no more countries in south Europe since we have already run out of location indicators in the L region. Or the location indicators of Cyprus, Israel and Palestine are changed to the O region where they geographically belong.
Oh and yes… I’m reading about “KFOR Sector” now… Interesting…
I’ve ordered life jacket and will keep it. So with that I have options nows.
Plans have evolved a bit more and now it gets interesting.
Anyone has landed at BKPR Pristina? SkyDemon doesn’t know about it. Autorouter does. I’ll find out tomorrow if my onboard equipment with the latest Jeppesen database knows it as well.
As it’s likely that I need to go to Pristina at the beginning of the following week I’m going to spend the weekend somewhere around the “general area”. It might very well be Venice and Portoroz to get to know it :-)
A jacket costing €70 will cost €35 to service in my not inconsiderable experience. A raft in the region of €600 with a major service every 5 years at ca €900. Which reminds me, time to get a new raft.
My experience is different, last time I looked. No doubt it depends on how cheap your life jackets are. Some are 200+.
It is actually similar to many other products e.g. at work we throw away all fire extinguishers at the 5 year (?) point because the pressure test costs more than buying a new one.
Rafts are different; overhaul maybe 200-300 while 1k+ to buy one.
Peter wrote:
GA ops are expired – because it usually costs less to buy a new one.
No. New ones are more expensive than a service. Having said that, servicing a raft is not cheap
