Paragliding Greece

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from 20.03. to 27.03.2021
from 10.04. to 17.04.2021

An Olympic Wings exclusive beginner paragliding course
for all who wish to learn how to fly

This course of fundamental training and education in paragliding is aimed at new pilots, low airtime pilots and complete beginners.

While receiving an introduction to this captivating air sport, you will acquire the necessary base of knowledge and skill to becoming a paragliding pilot.

Paragliding is a forever evolving sport of free flight that takes place in nature and the sky.
More and many happy people around the world now enjoy flying as a beloved activity.

To explore and fully discover it’s many fascinating experiences it is absolutely necessary to follow a training program.

Specified structure of learning and practice is crucial to your safety as much to your fast and successful progress as a pilot.

The course is organized and offered by 
Olympic Wings Paragliding School & Center
– with constant and complete operation as a paragliding professional –
worldwide recognized since 1995 
for paragliding holidays & tours, beginner & performance courses, special seminars
and tandem paragliding flights.

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Olympic Wings is affiliated to APPI and offers paragliding courses which follow the APPI education system.

A minimum 5-day duration course allows to qualify for the first level APPI 1 / FAI Para Pro 1.

A minimum 10-day duration course allows to qualify for the level APPI 2 / FAI Para Pro 2.

By the end of the course you will have lessons further counting towards your international club pilot or pilot licence.

Course itinerary

• Equipment
• Preparation for flying
• Aerodynamics
• Meteorology and micro meteorology
• Risk analysis and dangerous situations

Practical lessons in

• How to prepare the glider
• Equipment and weather check
• Ground control
• Take-off
• Flying
• Controlled landings
• Different approaches for landing
• Flights with and without turns, maneuvers
• Steering and breaking the glider

Olympic Wings paragliding equipment is modern following the latest technical designs and materials, continuously checked and EN certified for paragliding.
Our students train with a complete beginner set of reliable flying equipment!

Location:

Those who are interested for alternative dates and/or private lessons are welcome to place their request.

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

Great thermals and beautiful view at Kalyvia Mount Olympus in January 2019.

Olympic Wings offers a Groundhandling & Glider Control seminar

with Mike Küng

from 13.04. to 20.04.2019

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Groundhandling can be groundbreaking to a pilot’s progress, no matter their level of experience. It is essentially the only practice method, necessary to revisit time after time, for one to discover and utilize all of the glider’s abilities and with safety.
Training your feeling, your cognition, your reflexes and your physical inputs will broaden the spectrum of control with your own glider and enable you to familiarize faster and better with any new glider you fly!

The goal is to discover how a paraglider should really be handled and how it should react to your intentions.
The next step is establishing the reasons behind a glider’s incident behavior and any deviations from it.

We will give you answers and demonstrate several techniques applicable to the take off procedure as much as landing as much as all flight stages, which you will then implement yourself in real time action, so together we can work on adapting them to your flying style.

A blend of intense exercises on the ground and in the air, clear theory presentations and live demonstrations, daily targets and open dialogue, with plenty of airtime will optimize your flying sensations just in time for the start of the flying season!

The seminar will focus on:

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• Establishing several reliable take-off techniques.
• Evolve your take-off / landing technique.
• Adaptive techniques of thermalling and dynamic flying.
• Tipps for active piloting and safety in flight.
• Points of consideration when changing equipment and/or upgrading.
• Facts on glider new designs and equipment features.

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Flying Announcement Poster 2019 for Paragliding Special Events organized and offered in Greece by Olympic Wings.

XC seminar with Ronny Helgesen and the Olympic Wings edition XC Olympos
Flying Safaris across the top flying sites of North Greece 
Flight Techniques and first steps to cross country distance flying with Chris Geist
Groundhandling and Glider Control training with Mike Kueng

Tandem pilot paragliding course & APPI level 3 4 5 qualifications workshop course

Designed with the concept to offer pilots important flying experiences,

build their knowledge base and have a lot of fun!

Olympic Wings offers an exclusive XC seminar

with Ronny Helgesen

from 15.06. to 22.06.2019

XC seminar topics:

• Active flying – the way to avoid glider collapses
• How to fly together – flying with other pilots
• Controlling your flying speed
• Safety while flying on a cross country
• Advice to keep you safe while flying near clouds and terrain
• Reserve parachute – Advise on how to use it and what to do
• 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
• 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 modern gliders – what do the modern design features mean to the XC pilot

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Olympic Wings offers Flight Techniques * Thermalling * first steps to XC

with Chris Geist

from 11.05. to 18.05.2019

The goal is… to get a complete and comprehensive set of up-to-date practical knowledge while training your awareness so to adapt a “tactical act” and “reliable react” mechanism to your flying style.
A blend of theory and practice, useful illustrations, daily plan and dialogue, with plenty of airtime will boost your confidence just in time for the start of the flying season!

Every situation, from an – easy conditions and terrain – take off to the moments of big decision making while flying XC, require a clean solid technique yet adaptive to several key factors like the weather and flight conditions, your equipment, your abilities and your mindset.
We will revisit the basic aviation-in-paragliding rules while making the necessary remarks to give pilots a better understanding and a better sense of control to your flight experience.

The workshop will focus on:

• Fine tuning to your take-off and landing technique.
  
• Thermalling techniques for efficiency.
• Techniques for active piloting, glider control and training your awareness.
• Advice on safety.
• Technical tipps for XC pilots and performance flying as an evolving process.
• Useful features in modern gliders and flying equipment.
• Mental preparation & pilot psychology.

Program:

• Introduction and establishment of pilot levels
• Review of pilot equipment
• Area briefing and weather
• Daily exercises and group flights with radio
• Theory and Video Analysis sessions
• Daily debrief on individual and group basis
• Final assessment and summary

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