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2023 dates for our North Greece flying tours:

from 01.04. to 10.04.2023 – North East *Drama*
&
from 24.06. to 02.07.2023 – North West *Epirus*

further information: North Greece Flying Tour

Have a look and enjoy our pictures & impressions from this years flying tours in North 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.

Read more about it here > Services

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 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

About Stelios & Claudia:

The Olympic Wings chief instructors with years of experience in organizing group flying seminars for the progression of XC pilots are certified professionals in paragliding and active pilots themselves for more than 20 years.

Read more about us!

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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.

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 an area close to a local 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

Olympic Wings, paragliding seminar for cross-country flying, with Bruce Goldsmith and the participation of pilots from all over the world.

It was an incredible week of June with great flying, every day for everyone!

The Olympic Wings team would like to thank each of the pilots for their fantastic cooperation, joyful mood and responsible flying.

A real pleasure to fly together with all of you fine people!

Bruce Goldsmith once again performed excellent, a real inspiration with guiding knowledge. 

XC tips and facts that he shared with the pilots, building their confidence on new design gliders and flight technique!

Theory sessions indoors with digital material and simulations. Equipment check and adgustment, at the meeting point under the trees. Fun rambling and a mixture of really good gliders and gear!

Daily scouting of the gentle giant, the Mount Olympus range, as it became our flying playfield.

Flights from Ossa mountain, crossing the Tembi valley with views of the Aegean sea that ended in the Karya plateau to a great feast and talks of clouds & convergence.

Flights above the Thessaly flatlands, crossing Olympus flights and landings on the beach with a table set next to the sea for another lovely meal.

Pilots from Greece, Belgium, Germany, Luxemburg, Romania, Switzerland, India, Singapore and the US came together and took back home smiles, friends and flying experiences.

Impressive videos amongs the clouds, beautiful pictures of the skies, further the people and nature of early summer life.

Όλυμπος και Αλεξίπτωτο Πλαγιάς αρθρογραφία της www.ert.gr

XC paragliding seminar Olympic Wings

Στο επίκεντρο του παγκόσμιου αεραθλητικού ενδιαφέροντος βρέθηκε τις προηγούμενες μέρες ο Όλυμπος τον οποίο επέλεξαν ως την ιδανική τοποθεσία 23 εκπαιδευτές αιωροπτερισμού από όλο τον κόσμο για να πραγματοποιήσουν τεχνικό σεμινάριο αλεξίπτωτου πλαγιάς (παραπέντε).

Εκπαιδευτές από τις ΗΠΑ, την Αγγλία, τη Γαλλία, τη Γερμανία, την Ινδία αλλά και τη Σιγκαπούρη, βρέθηκαν στον Όλυμπο , προκειμένου να συμμετάσχουν σε μία συγκέντρωση  παγκόσμιας εμβέλειας, αναφορικά με τις τελευταίες εξελίξεις στον χώρο του αθλήματος, την ανταλλαγή εμπειριών αλλά και τη διερεύνηση των προοπτικών που διανοίγονται για τη διοργάνωση αγώνων διεθνούς βεληνεκούς στο βουνό των θεών και των μύθων.