Jump at Legendary Megara (Greece) dropzone

[Lok 0]

One incredible video on you tube, about the 1st (historically) drop on 1944 at Megara during operation MANA after the freedom of Greece from Nazis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNgbQh8exaI

The dropzone remains for more than 50 years the main dropzone of Greek army special forces...........and is open from 1979 to civilians for sport parachuting, the oldest skydiving club in Greece with ex and curent special forces instructors and TOP SAFETY (0 fatalities Record).

So, if you want to jump in the most historic and maybe the most beatifull dropzone in the earth, next skydiving activities at Megara will be on 3-4 February and practically every weekend after.

For more info contact the dropzone manifest:

mailto:info@aeroclubmegara.gr

[Marios 0]

wow nice video Lok. It was such an event that all the village was at the dropzone!

Yes people, come and jump with us in Greece.

Last weekend in one load we had jumpers from Greece, Cyprus, Latvia and Spain. That is not a very usual thing for us but it seems that people love the dropzone.
Who can beat the mediterranean blue?

We are waiting for you.

Blue skies

[damion75 0]

Sounds cool dude! What plane(s) do you have there? What are jump ticket prices like?

Blues!

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Not one shred of evidence supports the theory that life is serious - look at the platypus.

[Lok 0]

Dear Damion 75,

The jump plane is a leased C-208B Grand Caravan from a cargo company (www.aeroland.gr) modified for parachuting, very fast turboprop.
Is as fast as the Caravan I was jumping at Langar, but of course Langar's Caravan was fully modified for skydiving with floater steps and rails, and Langar's pilots had way more experience in paradrops.

The jump ticket is unfortunately very expensive, cost 40 euros from 12,500-14,000ft.

To compare in Langar I was paying 20 pounds(~30 euros) for a jumpticket from the same altitude ( Caravan -Skyvan) or even higher 15,000-16,000ft (Beech 99).

The Friday was just 15 pounds (22 euros) from max altitude always.

So the jumpticket here in Greece is very expensive compared to the Rest of Europe and UK.

But keep in mind that people of Megara aeroclub
they can do better, through the rent of the aircraft for the weekend is very expensive, and we are not
many people.
Megara aeroclub is the only Parachuting club for civilians in the Greek capital area, and you will not see more than 15-20 people every weekend.
So we are not doing more than 3-5 Caravan lifts per day at the moment.............

Unfortunatelly Skydiving here in Greece is not very popular (even the weather is the Best in the world),
and all the airports are under military control due to tension with turkey.

We hope that in the future will be better, and the jumpticket price will drop as the interest of people for skydiving will increase.

As regards the location of the dropzone is very easy to find it.
You can go straight from Athens International airport to the dropzone in just 30-35 minutes time using the suburban railway ( pass every 5 minutes from the airport, and live you exactly outside the dropzone (Megara station)!!!!!!!!!!) or just pm or e-mail us and we can pick you up from the airport.

Hope that these infos help.
Also Marios is working on manifest of aeroclub, so he can help you more if you have other questions.

Good luck, thanks for the interest.


P.S And something last.

Here some movies-photos from the dropzone as it is today during the weekend's Aeroclub Megara skydiving activities:

http://www.aeroclubmegara.gr/index.php?id=7,5,0,0,1,0

The movie on you tube, is the first drop at Megara on 12 Octomber 1944, from 2nd Independent British Parachute brigade during the operation MANA for Freedom of Greece from Nazi occupation.

Later on December 1944 British Paras together with the 3rd Greek mountain brigade and the Greek Sacred Squadron 1st SAS (the only combat ready Greek fighting units at the time, from thoose who were fighting on North Africa and Italy) saved Greece from the 20,000+ armed Communist gangs of ELAS, during the historic Battle of Athens.

[damion75 0]

Thanks for the info - that is expensive but if I do head over to Greece again I will bear it in mind!

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Not one shred of evidence supports the theory that life is serious - look at the platypus.

[Lok 0]

Yes, you are totally right Bro, with 40 euros the jumpticket nobody expects Megara to be a busy dropzone with foreign jumpers in the near future.

And honestly, you can not jump more than 3-4 times at Megara the same weekend day (at the moment).

But if you make it to Greece for holidays, then bring your rig together and believe me, thoose 2-3 jumps you'll loged at Megara, you'll have to remeber....

The view from 13,000+ ft over Megara is Socking beautiful......

There are always RW and FF guys around, asking for build a formation in the next jump and are times that everybody say " Ohhh, Fuck out everybody, I want to jump solo just to see how beatifull it is....."