The Brač Heliport accomodates the first helicopter

The helicopter crew (the Captain, Major Stjepan Stepić, the co-pilot, 1st Lieutenant Goran Petrović and aircraft technician, 1st Lt. Neven Korica and 1st Sergeant Domagoj Čulin of the Transport Helicopter Sqadron of the 93rd Air Force and Air Defence Base) certified and officially opened the heliport; Major Stjepan Stepić asserted the heliport met the criteria and flight security standards, including the night landing capacity.
The heliport is intended to accomodate emergency medical flights, the transportation of ground firemen and equipment, the SAR, the transportaton of passengers, cargo and other civilian assistance missions.  Last weekend’s successful intervention transporting an injured worker from the nearby quarry justified its construction.
“We maintain 24-hour readiness throughout the year to respond to any request for airlift to save a human life. The flight from here to the Split University Health Centre lasts for some 15 min, and in the course of 2014 we performed 36 emergency flights, and 11 up to this day in 2015“, said Major Stepić.
The Mayor of the Selce Municipality, Ivan Marijančević took the opportunity to extend appreciation to the Croatian Air Force and Air Defence crews for saving human lives, on behalf of the residents of Selce and the visitors. “The new heliport is a major life quality enhancer  for the island’s residents, enabling better connections with the mainland and better  medical care, including the possibility of medical helicopter  flights“, said the Mayor. 
The heliport was visited by the children from the Selce kindergarten, who visited the cockpit and took photos with the pilots who fly the humanitarian assistance missions.
The opening coincided with an intervention rescuing a patient from Dubrovnik to the Split University Hospital Centre; it was the 190th passenger transported by military helicopter in 2015.