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Hello flying friend,

in January I have launched „Thermal Flying for Paraglider and Hang Glider Pilots “ in the second edition. Now it has 33 new and in total 296 pages.

Info see my homepage www.thermikwolke.de

Brand new is the long awaited “Cross-Country Flying for Paraglider and Hang Glider Pilots” It is the perfect supplementary to “Thermal Flying”.  It comes in hardcover, has 240 pages, 500 pictures and costs 37,95€. 

Contents:

? The detailed site decriptions are: Fiesch (CH), Fanas (CH) Pinzgau (A), Speikboden (I) Greifenburg (A) and Annecy (F).

? The interviews are with: Chrigel Maurer (CH) Jocky Sanderson (GB), Torsten Hahne (D), Mads Syndergaard (DK), Karel Vejchodsky (CZ), Heli Eichholzer (A) and Ewa Wisnierska (D)

? The site impressions are from: Quixada (BR), Manilla (AUS), Iquique (CL), De Aar (SA), Rift Valley (KEN), and Piedrahita (E)

The writer

Burkhard Martens was born in 1962 in Lower Saxony, Germany. After completing his studies in 1989 he moved to the south of Germany and took up paragliding. For several years he managed to work as an environmental engineer and be a very passionate pilot, but from ‘94 his life has been inseparable from flying. From ‘94 to ‘97 he worked for paraglider manufacturers, and from ‘97 to 2003 he owned and ran a paragliding school.

Burkhard’s passion is cross-country flying, and after flying in the German XC League for twenty years he finally managed to win the Sports Class in 2004 and the Open Class in 2008. This success was followed by the publication of the book “Thermal Flying“ in German in 2005. This book has since been translated into nine (!) languages.
In April 2007 the next book in the series, “Das Streckenflugbuch für Gleitschirm- und Drachenflieger“ (The XC-Flying Guide for Paraglider and Hang gliders) was published. Although it has only been on sale for a very short time the sales figures are already impressive. In 2010 the impressive DVD guide to the best flying sites in the eastern Alps was released (still on sale). In 2011 the third edition of “Thermal Flying“ was published in German. In 2013 the English second edition of “Thermal Flying“ and the long-awaited “Cross-Country Flying“ books have been published

In April 2013 the group of friends from Abu Dhabi visited Mount Olympus and had some great flights with Olympic Wings.
We enjoyed very much the time we spent with Faizal, Ali, Futra, Hilal and Yasuaki. 

In the middle of March 2013 the paragliding school Chiemsee visited us for a week holiday with a lot of interesting paragliding flights in Greece. Petra and Wolfgang guided the group of their pilots with passion, they have been here at Olympic Wings already several years ago and know our area well.

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In the first week of March 2013 Rüdiger, Michael, Karl-Peter, Edgar, Daniel and Jürgen came to fly with us at Mount Olympus.

The pilots could fly almost every day in a fascinating scene from different take-offs. They enjoyed flights from the Little Church with landings at the beach after soaring the castle, thermalling from Kalivia with take offs at 1550 and 1250 m just below the snow of the highest peaks of Mount Olympus, just have a look at the pictures!

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