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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    
 

Η Olympic Wings προσφέρει ένα εκπαιδευτικό πρόγραμμα στο ΔΙΘΕΣΙΟ ΑΛΕΞΙΠΤΩΤΟ ΠΛΑΓΙΑΣ TANDEM για τους πιλότους που επιθυμούν να πετάνε διπλό με επιβάτες με ασφάλεια.

Το πρόγραμμα θα διαρκέσει από 11. έως 18. Νοεμβρίου 2017 στον Όλυμπο.

Σημεία εκπαιδευτικού προγράμματος στο ΔΙΘΕΣΙΟ:

• Επίσημες οδηγίες για τη μέγιστη ασφάλεια
• Τεχνικές και τακτικές πτήσης με διθέσιο αλεξίπτωτο
• Λειτουργική εξοπλισμού διθέσιου – Εύρος κιλών & Εύρος ταχυτήτων
• Τεχνικές ψυχολογίας για την καλύτερη σας απόδοση 
• Οδηγίες για την προετοιμασία και διαχείριση της ανταπόκρισης του επιβάτη
• Βήματα επιπέδου επαγγελματία πιλότου διθέσιου

Πρόγραμμα:

• Εισαγωγή και διευκρίνηση επιπέδου των πιλότων
• Εξέταση του εξοπλισμού – Ενδοσκόπηση στο σχεδιασμό του εξοπλισμού και της πτέρυγας διθέσιου 
• Η πτήση με διθέσιο αλεξίπτωτο & ο εξοπλισμός σε κατεστημένη θεωρία
• Ενημέρωση του επιβάτη και ανάλυση των συνθηκών/περιοχής για τον πιλότο 
• Πρακτικό μάθημα και ασκήσεις υπό καθαρές οδηγίες και υποστήριξη μέσω ασύρματου
• Ψυχολογική προετοιμασία – τεχνικές αυτοανάλυσης – παράγοντες & πλαίσια ασφάλειας
• Τελική αξιολόγηση & επίσημη πιστοποίηση συμπεριλαμβανομένου δυνατοτήτων ασφάλισης για την δραστηριότητα

Το πρόγραμμα διοργανώνει και παρέχει η Olympic Wings σχολή και κέντρο αλεξιπτώτου πλαγιάς
– με διεθνή αναγνώριση, με συνεχή και ολοκληρωμένη επαγγελματική δράση στο αλεξίπτωτο πλαγιάς από το 1995 
– σε καθοδήγηση πιλότων, σχολές βασικής και επιδόσεων εκπαίδευσης, εξειδικευμένα σεμινάρια και εμπειρικές & εκπαιδευτικές πτήσεις με διθέσιο αλεξίπτωτο. 

Ο Όλυμπος:

Η Olympic Wings μπορεί να διοργανώσει την διαμονή και τις μεταφορές σας για την διάρκεια της επίσκεψης και της παρακολούθησης του προγράμματος. 

Για κρατήσεις και επιπλέον πληροφορίες παρακαλώ επικοινωνήστε μαζί μας. 

Olympic Wings
Σχολή & κέντρο Αλεξιπτώτου Πλαγιάς
email: info@olympicwings.com  τηλ.: +30-23520-41741   Στέλιος κιν: +30-6942215980

Ο εξοπλισμός της σχολής αλεξιπτώτου πλαγιάς Olympic Wings είναι σε άριστη κατάσταση, ελέγχεται συνεχώς και είναι ΕΝ πιστοποιημένος για το αλεξίπτωτο πλαγιάς ακολουθώντας την εξέλιξη σε υψηλής τεχνολογίας σχεδιασμό, υλικά & κατασκευή. 

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Olympic Wings offers Tandem powered paragliding Trike Flights to people who want to experience flying along the Aegean Coastline with inspiring views of the clear Sea and the Olympus Mountain peaks.

Contact us for an experience of Paratrike Flying.

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.