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Olympic Wings co-organizer to an Advanced SIV Course
at Ioannina Lake in Greece

Course dates 27 – 28 May 2017

Beginner & performance pilots are welcome to join
developing their technical skills & level of safety in paragliding!

More information? ..feel free to contact us by email at info@olympicwings.com 

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

After the spring time success of both the APPI PPG workshop and APPI PG Pro workshop – for Pilots, Professionals & Instructors – with qualifying validations, much insider knowledge and great flights shared… 
We are happy to announce both workshops running again in November this year 2017, once more at Mt. Olympus and the Olympus Aegean Coast in Greece.

APPI PPG Paramotor Paratrike workshop in Powered Paragliding 
will be held at the Aegean Coast of Mount Olympus by Olympic Wings during week  11.11 to 18.11.2017

Photo impressions from the APPI PPG workshop in March 2017 with Alex Ledger

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APPI PG PRO workshop Paragliding Professionals
will be held at Panteleimonas Mount Olympus by Olympic Wings during days
19.11 to 28.11.2017
(arrival one day prior – departure one day after)

Photo impressions from the APPI PG Pro workshop in April 2017 with Patrick Troubet-Lacoste and Asterios Makrovasilis

For bookings and any further information please feel free to contact us.

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

Glider pilots all over the world share the passion
for free flying – birdlike – together with the guiding winds of the earth.

Another fantastic presentation
on how everyone can become part of the sky 
with personal Εffort and professional Τraining by the instructors of our school
in Greece and the mountain Olympus.

Tandem paragliding is..

The Ultimate free flying experience for Everyone 

20.05 – 27.05.2017  Mount Olympus  Greece
Tandem Pilot  workshop  course 

with Herminio Cordido

The tandem paragliding course aims to pilots  already  flying  tandem by following this course for them to receive a  thorough educational background  and further  cross reference to upgrade  the pilots  technique and practices  considering the gliders, equipment, conditions and passenger.

Professional tandem pilots carry great responsibility and stress agents that can be successfully managed by locking knowledge and skills to the optimal level.

Facts -Tips & Tricks

Soft or hard spreaders? Trimming your glider before, during, after flight? What is the gliders stall-point? Lets go down?
Questions that every pilot answers independently and acts on instinctively with each flight will be examined and placed in perfect little boxes ready for you to call upon with the utmost certainty that you are doing the right thing!
Acro tandem paragliding everyday flying, simple maneuvers and those stronger will they fascinate your passenger or make his experience unpleasant?

The course will enable you to train your safety reactions and increase confidence in your equipment and your self. You will learn to control your tandem paraglider beyond your “normal” flight envelope and under conditions of maximum safety through the implementation of flight incident scenarios.

about Herminio Cordido:

Herminio Cordido, from our other side of the globe, a pilot since the age of 13 years old, member of the Venezuelan Paragliding National team for 10 years and now a solid member of the ICARO gliders Pilot team.

A born to paraglide pilot that transmits love for flying and passion to evolve!

A trusted pilot for designers, he has the experience of flying with an unlimited number of gliders through all categories not only acro, competition gliders but the newest performance tandem paragliders!
Graceful ground spiral landings with tandem, soft gentle landings and beautiful experiences for his passengers.

All the way from Guadalajara, Mexico and Canada were he professionally offers tandem flights in North Vancouver. He has flying experience in the furthest most remote areas of the planet mastering different flight conditions and terrain variables. Herminio has captured scenes and landscapes of outstanding beauty and his nature led him to cinematography one of his professional pursuits and studies.

Creator of many thrilling paragliding films like Dust Devil for Horacio Llorens and Los Rodriquez for Raul and Felix further the Never Ending Thermal of his own adventure.

Numerous entries and successes in competitions around the world challenging his own paragliding and aerobatics skills and limits.

A factory competition pilot for Ozone, winning first place at the Red Bull Uribante Acro championship in 2004, contesting in Red Bull Vertigo acro championship performing the Misty Tumble from flight one.
An extreme sportsman flying off hot-air balloons, skydiving and his personal record the self induced HALO, Herminio jumping out of his paragliding gear at 6.230 meters to skydive and meet his target.

We are exited to see him in Europe once more, at Mount Olympus in Greece flying with us and sharing his knowledge and experience with us in a refreshing simplistic way that will open our eyes to the ease of paragliding tandem.

Herminio Cordido Tips and Tricks for Tandem Pilots from Ozone Paragliders on Vimeo.

The course Point to Point:

Administration, disclaimer
Presentation of every pilot and exchanging experiences
General briefing with video and educational panels
Flying with safety
Tandem flawless technique
Tips & Tricks
Making the right decision
Stress psych management
Presentation of the evolution area and landing
Weather

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