Olympic Wings offers a 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.
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.
Our instructors will support you with your thermalling techniques and your first steps into XC if you wish.
The Olympic Wings chief instructors with years of experience in organizing group flying seminars for the progression of XC pilots are certified professionals in paragliding and active pilots themselves for more than 20 years.
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Olympic Wings organizes the XC seminar at Mount Olympus and the best flying areas around 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 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 seminar together with your accommodation and transfers directly through Olympic Wings.
For bookings and any further information please contact us.
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.
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.
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.
