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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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Olympic Wings offers exclusive TANDEM paragliding courses to pilots

who wish to learn how to fly with passengers safely.

from 30.03. to 06.04.2019

Tandem paragliding course points:

• Official maximized safety standards
• Technical and tactical flying of a tandem glider
• Tandem equipment functionality – Weight range & Speed range
• Psychological techniques to help you perform at your best
• Guides to prepare and manage passenger responses
• Professional tandem paragliding class steps

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To/ our paragliding pilot friends & work partners

We wish you joyful Christmas festivities and a – sky high thermal – happy New Year!
Success in everything you do and doing what you love!

Here are the impressions from our XC Seminar this June with our guest paragliding professionals Michael Nesler & Gudrun Oechsl.

A great occasion to happily greet and warmly welcome like always many paragliding pilots that joined our seminar, to push their boundaries and earn healthy experience in XC flying with our support.

The Olympic Wings venue Mount Olympus with it’s impressive valleys – high mountain plateaus – vast flatlands – Aegean Sea coastline once again gave us interesting conditions, amazing views, beautiful clouds and strong thermals; all of which the pilots conquered in their time in the sky.

Amongst enjoying the traditional scenery and hospitality of our region in Greece, a flexible everyday schedule was drafted containing a mixture of Theory and Practise, with daily meticulous weather forecast and topography briefing sessions.

Thermalling techniques theory sessions on body potitioning and thermal tracking in the sky, even take off and landing tips for the lower airtime pilots.
Meteorology subjects discussions from clouds to wind systems on recognizing, mapping and utilizing the flying conditions.

An interesting theory session on Mental Preparation and Mental Attidute in flying by Michael Nesler was proven to be very succesful to the pilots who then later proceeded to having incredible flights.

We thank Michael and Gudrun for their time with us.

We thank all the pilots for flying safe and choosing to fly with Olympic Wings!

Greetings to all
the Olympic Wings Team

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DHV PARAGLIDING TRAINING SEMINAR IN GREECE
for tandem pilots & paragliding instructors 

with the DHV German Paragliding Federation members

Robin Frieß  DHV CEO
Peter Cröniger  DHV Education board
Simon Winkler  DHV Safety Technics Specialist

Our paragliding center and school, operating since 1995, welcomes pilots and paragliding schools from all over the world, who we support and guide in our region Mt. Olympus and Greece for flying during paragliding holidays and our special paragliding events.

Thus we have gained a real time experience of the growing evolution in design and performance of the new gliders. This evolution offers to pilot’s maximum functionality with a minimum input yet presents with the need to revisit our techniques as pilots in glider handling and to acquire a better global understanding of equipment behavior more so to present to student pilots.

Many paragliding instructors from the top paragliding schools in Greece participated in the training seminar as much as professional tandem pilots.
Paragliding instructors gave the chance to some of their student pilots entering the sport to also follow the seminar giving them unique insights.
The Albanian Federation with its president Arket Islami and a team of pilots honored us by also attending the seminar course benefiting from this unique opportunity.

Our team Olympic Wings together with all seminar participants are very thankful to Mr. Robin Friess, Mr Peter Croeniger and Mr Simon Winkler for their time, deep consideration and efforts to make this training seminar possible and most rewarding.

We are more than satisfied to follow this short and elaborate course that contained theory, discussions, video analysis, video presentations and practice flights on modern techniques and safety recommendations that have been tested and researched with today’s modern gliders, harnesses and overall equipment.

They have supported our sport for many years mostly by collecting a lot of information, developing and testing many theories in paragliding to result to safety for the public as much as leisure pilots, performance pilots, professionals, schools and student pilots alike.

During the training course these findings were presented to us with openness and simplicity offering reassurance by creating a clear view perspective on efficiency and safety.

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