Paragliding Greece

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from 27.03. to 05.04.2021
from 03.06. to 12.06.2021

Surprise Flying Tour with Olympic Wings

This tour takes you paragliding at remote new flying areas with a surprise itinerary specially designed by the Olympic Wings team.

We visit destinations in Greece that offer great thermal and cross country flying over original landscapes plus coastal flights with impressive sea views – not missing a day of flying.

Flexibility and organizational backup, to combine areas across regions with minimum transport time further based on the weather allow us to meet each flying site at the best conditions.

We not only retrieve you after landing but most important support you from our own experience with key information to understand and make the best use of the local weather systems and cross country route options with safety.

Pilots flying with us experience thermal technical flying in addition to smooth flights into the sunset. 

A holiday nonetheless, we travel comfortable through welcoming villages and small towns. We rest nicely in newly-renovated hotels and high quality guesthouses with fresh breakfast, near the sea or on the mountain near the take off.

Suggestions and tips for lovely meals every evening from local-made products to enjoy in a relaxing ambiance.

Greece is a country with a rich natural environment on a grand European peninsula that dives into the Mediterranean sea, surrounded by thousands of floating islands.  

The mainland, primarily covered by mountains yet crusted by endless coastline, has an original beauty where the co-existence of rock, forest and sand alternates in unique ways.

High mountains expand through the whole of Greece, some reaching into the alpine zone, some forming long mountain ranges that circle field lands and track routes of rivers or shelter lakes. 

The highest mountain in Greece is Mount Olympus at 2.917 m. in north central Greece, also Olympic Wings’ home mountain.

Olympic Wings est 1995, a professional flying host with years of experience, successfully runs paragliding seminars and events, paragliding holidays and flying tours across Greece.

We specialize in the paragliding organization and support for our pilot-guests so as they fly high, fly safe and always land gently!

Impressions of flying with Olympic Wings:

Organization:

Accommodation for all pilots is at selected locations which further allow flexibility and comfort after the days flying.

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We adhere to the legal formalities and local rules and regulations.

You can book the surprise Flying tour together with your accommodation and transfers directly through Olympic Wings. 
You are welcome to extend your travel time and stay with us longer.

For bookings and any further information please contact us.

Olympic Wings
Paragliding Center & Paragliding Holidays in Greece
email: info@olympicwings.com
tel.: +30-23520-41741
Stelios mobile: +30-6942215980

Olympic Wings offers an exclusive XC seminar

with Ronny Helgesen

from 15.06. to 22.06.2019

XC seminar topics:

• Active flying – the way to avoid glider collapses
• How to fly together – flying with other pilots
• Controlling your flying speed
• Safety while flying on a cross country
• Advice to keep you safe while flying near clouds and terrain
• Reserve parachute – Advise on how to use it and what to do
• Tips to help you climb fast and efficiently
• Psychological techniques to help you perform at your best
• In-depth guides to flying the flatlands and mountains
• Skills and tactics to help you fly bigger cross country distances
• Straight-forward illustrations to help you maximize flying conditions
• Simple explanations of diverse wind and thermal flow patterns and structures
• Insights into modern gliders – what do the modern design features mean to the XC pilot

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Olympic Wings invites you to our

Original ‘Olympic Wings edition’ Olympos XC seminar

from 31.08. to 07.09.2019

XC seminar topics:

• Heaps of tips to help you climb fast and efficiently
• Psychological techniques to help you perform at your best
• In-depth guides to flying the flatlands and mountains
• Advice to keep you safe while flying near clouds and terrain
• Skills and tactics to help you fly bigger cross country distances
• Straight-forward illustrations to help you maximize flying conditions
• Simple explanations of diverse wind and thermal flow patterns and structures
• Insights into paragliding design. What does the modern design features mean to the XC pilot

Program:

• Introduction and establishment of pilot levels
• Review of pilot equipment
• Area briefing and weather
• Daily tasks and group flights with radio
• Daily debrief on individual and group basis
• Final assessment and summary

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from 08. to 15. June 2019

Come to fly the sensational Northern Greece high mountains!

In 2019 the North Greece Flying Safari will take place right before the Olympic Wings XC seminar with Ronny Helgesen for the pilots that wish to continue flying and improve their skills with us.

Olympic Wings offers the North Greece Flying Safari to give pilots the experience of paragliding at the most fascinating flying sites of the central and North mountains in Greece.

We have selected climate and geo diverse flying sites of the mountains in the north of Greece that have been chosen by pilots from all over Europe for their interesting conditions and beautiful landscapes.

Fantastic thermal conditions with diverse geological aspects and great XC possibilities at all of the sites.

We will not only take you between take offs and landings but most important support you from our own experience of competition and XC flying in the areas with key information to understand and make the best use of the local weather systems and route options always with safety.

We can ensure you will enjoy your days flying at the different sites, improve your skills and meet the challenges of each and every flight.

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Paragliding Holidays at Olympus!

Long Distance Flying ..

The ultimate Endeavor of the modern Pilot 

02.06  to  09.06.2018   Mount Olympus   Greece
Cross Country XC seminar for paragliding pilots 

with Michael Nesler & Gudrun Oechsl

This XC seminar aims to allow the progression of paragliding pilots to perform better at long distance flying by receiving up-to-date knowledge and usefull guidance.

XC seminar topics:

 

• Tips to help you climb fast and efficiently
• Tips & guidance for take off techniques with stronger wind
• The importance of preparing your gear & how to adjust your harness correctly
• Insights into paragliding design – What does the modern design features mean to the XC pilot
• In-depth guides to flying the flatlands and mountains
• Skills and tactics to help you fly bigger cross country distances
• Advice to keep you safe while flying near clouds and terrain
• Straight-forward illustrations to help you maximize flying conditions
• Simple explanations of diverse wind and thermal flow patterns and structures
• Psychological techniques to help you perform at your best

Program:

• Introduction and establishment of pilot levels
• Review of pilot equipment
• Area briefing and weather
• Daily tasks and group flights with radio
• Daily debrief on individual and group basis
• Final assessment and summary

about Michael Nesler & Gudrun Oechsl:

Michael Nesler, born in Italy, an FIVL and Austrian Aeroclub paragliding instructor since 1987 further a SIV instructor, a well known acrobatics pilot and instructor, also a pioneer glider designer.

Designer for : AFM, Bicla, Edel, Eiffel, Freestyle, Icaro, Independence, Firebird, Fun-Air, Kimfly, Perché, Profly, Wings of Change and more.

Till this day he passed over 250 homologation tests successfully, designed and tested by himself over 1000 glider prototypes!

Gudrun Oechsl is a DHV lisenced paragliding instructor and SIV instructor, test- and approval pilot for DHV the german paragliding authority, photographer, author and marketing specialist.

Michael and Gudrun are active members of the PROFLY – Professional Flying Team – with Michael as the founder of this venture in 2002. Together with a team of very capable instructors they offer exclusive and individual permormance flying camps and safety trainings for advanced pilots.

Most important Michael is a gifted computer programmer who has custom written and developed 3-D modeling and manufacturing software for flexible membrane structures, such as paragliders and parachutes. He has designed ram air inflated wings ranging from student canopies to award-winning competition paragliders, and holds several patents of ram-air wings.

A great contribution to paragliding among his achievements is the computer program he developed specifically for paraglider design. It was initially created in 1986 on an IBM 8086 and had been continuously developed since then. It is the most used computer program for paraglider design, available now for Silicon Graphics platforms and for balloon and foil-kite development.
Some of the companies known to be using this software are: Area, Swing, Madreiter, SOL, Edel, UP Europe, AFM, Paratech, Independence, Perche, and Atair Aerodynamics.

We are excited to see them in Greece, at Mount Olympus, flying with us and sharing their knowledge and experience with us in a refreshing way that will motivate us to fly better & further.

Location:

The main take-off for the XC seminar is located on the western side of Mount Olympus, on top of the village Kalivia. It is called Tourtofolia and provides take-off directions towards west, south and east at a height of 1.250 m. Several paragliding and hanggliding competitions up to world cup level have been organized here already.  

Alternative take-offs nearby are KEOAX, Elassona, Kalipefki.

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Organization:

Olympic Wings organizes the XC seminar at Mount Olympus and offers accommodation and all transfers during the flying days for the pilots taking part at the seminar.  

All necessary retrievals from XC flights are included in the transfers.  

The pilots accommodation is located in the area close to the flying site with short drives to the take-off.  

You can book the XC seminar together with your accommodation and transfers directly through Olympic Wings.  

For bookings and any further information please contact us.  

Olympic Wings
Paragliding Center & Paragliding Holidays in Greece
email: info@olympicwings.com  
tel.: +30-23520-41741  
Stelios mobile: +30-6942215980