Paragliding Greece: XC flying camp at its best!

XC flying camp at its best!

with Roger Oechslin from MeteoScout and Stelios Makrovasilis from Olympic Wings

from 13.07. to 20.07.2019

Want to be up here? Come to fly with us!

Olympic Wings offers a mid summer flying week focused on XC flights for experienced pilots who want to fly scenic Greece and enjoy airtime.

We will be moving through selected flying sites that give the best cross country flying between the areas of Mt Olympus and Mt Voras in central and north Greece.

We will support you with the best local knowledge on the sites. Conditions, area and flight planning, along with the necessary flexible organization on accomodation and retrievals.

Moreover you will be flying with local XC pilots.

Olympic Wings long experience allows us to further give support to pilots with advice and pointers for equipment, flying the mountains and flatlands, flying with clouds and maximizing the use of wind and thermal systems.

We will offer clear and detailed briefings on the area, possible xc routes, score flights, local and broader flying conditions as much as mental support.

The two instructors will support you with your thermalling techniques and your first steps into XC if you wish.

Roger Oechslin will be supporting your flying with his expert knowledge on meteorology.

Roger is an educated meteorologist, a paragliding instructor and mountain leader in training. He studied meteorology at the federal institute of technology in Zurich and the university of Innsbruck.

In his career as meteorologist Meteotest in Bern, he gave weather support in different fields, including X-Alps Teams (e.g. Chrigel Maurer and Paul Guschelbauer), Himalaya Excursions (e.g. Everest and K2) and major sport events in the Alps.

He got his first flying experience in 2000, when he went to Lake Elsinore California for a skydiving course AFF.

In 2009 he became a paragliding instructor and tandem master and worked in different flying schools.

Since 2013 he works together with Andi Aeby, Worldchampion 2009, in Andi’s flight school as instructor and travel guide.

Since 2012 he holds meteorological seminars for the future SHV instructors Swiss Hanggliding Association. In 2013 he was additionaly elected as examiner for the official meteorological exams.

His strength is to find the best possible flying conditions and make use of the current weather for meteorological seminars/explanations.

His main goal is helping pilots in reducing their meteorological risks to a minimum. Being part in his trips means learning a lot about the weather while having a lot of airtime. Privately he is a passionate Hike&Fly and Vol-Biv pilot.

The Olympic Wings chief instructors with years of experience in organizing pilot group paragliding holidays and flying seminars for the progression of XC pilots are certified professionals in paragliding and active pilots themselves for more than 20 years.

Stelios the leader and founder of Olympic Wings is a fully qualified FAI paragliding instructor, a certified APPI master instructor and member of it’s pedagogical committee.

Also a former competition pilot he is widely known for his exceptional knowledge of the local flying conditions and his competent guiding skills.

He studied economics in Bath UK and is a licensed tour operator manager with longtime experience in the tourism industry.

Several flying sites:

We will fly at sites that best match towards the weather conditions and XC potentials.

‘At’ and ‘in between’ the two high mountains.

Mount Olympus is the highest mountain range in Greece, parallel to the sea, with its highest peak Mytikas at 2.917 m. The south western area of the mountain has fantastic cross country and thermalling conditions.

The large flatland area of Thessaly expands towards the south offers a big potential for open distance and many triangle XC flights. Southeast in direction to the city of Larissa, Northwest crossing the river of Aliakmonas and West towards Deskati mountains. A wonderful flight is the cross towards the Aegean Sea on the eastern side of Olympus with a beach landing.

Mount Voras is a high mountain of the northest parts of Greece that belongs also to a mountain range. It is the 3rd highest mountain in Greece with it’s summit Kaimaktsalan at 2.524 m. adjacent to more high peak mountains.
Cross country flights go south towards Mt Olympus and beyond, further direction to the towns of Grevena and Kalampaka.

Organization:

Olympic Wings organizes this XC flying week and offers accommodation and all transfers during the flying days for the pilots joining us.
All necessary retrievals from XC flights are included in the transfers.

The pilots accommodation is in good quality guesthouses and small hotels situated in areas closest to each possible flying site minimizing the drive to take-off.

You can book the XC week together with your accommodation and transfers directly through Olympic Wings.

For bookings and any further information please contact us.