{"id":30189,"date":"2019-01-07T19:45:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T16:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paragliding.olympicwings.com\/?p=30189"},"modified":"2019-01-14T22:40:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T19:40:30","slug":"chris-geist-the-specialists-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paragliding.olympicwings.com\/de\/2019\/01\/07\/chris-geist-the-specialists-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Geist &#8211; the specialist&#8217;s week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Olympic Wings offers Flight Techniques * Thermalling * first steps to XC<\/h4>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">with Chris Geist<\/h5>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">from 11.05. to 18.05.2019<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">ngg_shortcode_27_placeholderThis technical seminar aims to <strong>fulfill and train<\/strong> paragliding pilots who wish to improve their overall <strong>flying abilities and technical skills performance<\/strong>, during all of the flight stages and by the different kinds of flight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\nThe goal is&#8230; to get a complete and comprehensive set of up-to-date practical <strong>knowledge<\/strong> while training your <strong>awareness<\/strong> so to adapt <strong>a \u201ctactical act\u201d and \u201creliable react\u201d mechanism to your flying style<\/strong>.<br \/>\nA blend of theory and practice, useful illustrations, daily plan and dialogue, with plenty of airtime will boost your confidence <strong>just in time for the start of the flying season!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\nEvery situation, from an &#8211; easy conditions and terrain &#8211; take off to the moments of big decision making while flying XC, require <strong>a clean solid technique yet adaptive<\/strong> to several key factors like the weather and flight conditions, your equipment, your abilities and your mindset.<br \/>\nWe will revisit the basic aviation-in-paragliding rules while making the necessary remarks <strong>to give pilots a better understanding and a better sense of control to your flight experience.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5>The workshop will focus on:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Fine tuning to your take-off and landing technique.ngg_shortcode_28_placeholder<\/li>\n<li>Thermalling techniques for efficiency.<\/li>\n<li>Techniques for active piloting, glider control and training your awareness.<\/li>\n<li>Advice on safety.<\/li>\n<li>Technical tipps for XC pilots and performance flying as an evolving process.<\/li>\n<li>Useful features in modern gliders and flying equipment.<\/li>\n<li>Mental preparation &amp; pilot psychology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Program:<br \/>\nngg_shortcode_29_placeholder<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction and establishment of pilot levels<\/li>\n<li>Review of pilot equipment<\/li>\n<li>Area briefing and weather<\/li>\n<li>Daily exercises and group flights with radio<\/li>\n<li>Theory and Video Analysis sessions<\/li>\n<li>Daily debrief on individual and group basis<\/li>\n<li>Final assessment and summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>About Chris Geist:<\/h5>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_30_placeholderngg_shortcode_31_placeholderChris is a very <strong>capable paragliding pilot<\/strong> and <strong>acro<\/strong> <strong>pilot<\/strong>, moreover an <strong>active paragliding instructor<\/strong> further <strong>widely recognized as an experienced paragliding safety-instructor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He has <strong>extensive knowledge on the flying performance of a variety of paragliders<\/strong> and has done numerous of <strong>glider reviews<\/strong> for official organizations, safety training purposes and paragliding fan pilots.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_32_placeholderHe is<strong>&nbsp;an official test pilot for Ozone manufacturing company<\/strong>, further&nbsp;<strong>for certification organizations&nbsp;<\/strong>like ParaTest <strong>and the German paragliding federation DHV.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chris is also a senior <strong>FAI judge for acrobatics<\/strong> competitions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2004 he got his degree in forestry and environmental protection.<br \/>\nBetween 2004 and 2006 he had a professional position in paragliding working for<strong> Airwave Stubaital<\/strong> as a test pilot also in sales and web design.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_33_placeholder\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2007 he officially cooperated <strong>with Swing in<\/strong> <strong>glider development<\/strong>&nbsp;also was working as <strong>a test pilot for the Swiss certification organization ParaTest<\/strong> and the european&nbsp;<strong>EARP<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since 2008 <strong>he operates successfully his own paragliding school the Paragliding Academy<\/strong> as one of the biggest schools in Germany with<strong> an excellent performance rating<\/strong> in safety training, flying trips and paragliding training for pilots.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CG-iHdsgvCs\">the video<\/a> of his Safety Training program Presentation on stage at the <strong>Thermik exhibition 2018<\/strong> in Stuttgart Germany.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>Location:<\/h5>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_34_placeholder<strong>Mount Olympus<\/strong>, the mythical mountain is the highest in Greece with its highest peak Mytikas at 2.917 m. Our<strong> flying area covers<\/strong> the three mountains of Pieria, Olympus in the north and Ossa \/ Kissavos in the south, these mountains form a longer range <strong>parallel to the coastline of the Aegean Sea<\/strong> that is separated by lower and higher altitude <strong>impressive valleys<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>south western<\/strong> area of the mountain has fantastic cross country and thermalling conditions. The large flatland area of Thessaly towards the south offers a big potential for open distance and triangle XC flights. <br \/>\nThe <strong>eastern<\/strong> area of the mountain expands to the sea and enables us to combine coastal dynamic flying with thermalling. A <strong>challenging and unique flight is the cross country<\/strong> from the west side of Olympus through the mountains towards east to the sea with a beach landing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>During the seminar we will be alternating take-off points amongst the many flying sites existing while matching the weather conditions and following the seminar progress.<\/strong><\/p>\nngg_shortcode_35_placeholder\n<h5>Organization:<\/h5>\n<p>Olympic Wings organizes the workshop at Mount Olympus and offers <strong>accommodation<\/strong> and all <strong>transfers<\/strong> during the flying days for the pilots taking part at the seminar.<br \/>\nThe pilots accommodation is located in one of the areas close to one of the flying sites with short drives to the take-off.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>You can book the TQ seminar together with your accommodation and transfers directly through Olympic Wings.<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nFor <strong>bookings<\/strong> and any further information please contact us.<\/p>\n<h6>Olympic Wings<br \/>\nParagliding Center &amp; Paragliding Holidays in Greece<br \/>\nemail: <a title=\"email us\" href=\"mailto:info@olympicwings.com\">info@olympicwings.com<\/a><br \/>\ntel.: +30-23520-41741<br \/>\nStelios mobile: +30-6942215980<\/h6>\n<h6>&nbsp;<\/h6>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verf\u00fcgbar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,55,715,79,141],"tags":[707,166,708,706,404,180,172,78,162,27,184],"class_list":["post-30189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kalivia","category-little-church-flying-sites","category-olympus","category-paragliding-course","category-xc-seminar","tag-active-piloting","tag-beach","tag-chris-geist","tag-flight-techniques","tag-greece","tag-olympic-wings","tag-paragliding-course","tag-paragliding-greece","tag-thermalling","tag-xc-flying","tag-xc-seminar"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chris Geist - the specialist&#039;s week! 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