By September, the training of Greek pilots in the F-35 is expected to begin, with the first 14 flyers and 60 Air Force technicians going to the United States in the summer, according to Kathimerini.

Although the delivery of the first Greek 5th generation fighters is scheduled for the late decade and their arrival in Andravida for the beginning of the next, as relevant sources report, education is long, complex and demanding, so it starts much earlier than the foreseen.

The first stage of the initiation of the Flights in the F-35 takes place at the Luke Air Base in Arizona, in a US government. Each candidate pilot takes at least 192 hours on the ground before the first flight. The reason is that the F-35 has no two-seater formation, so the first contact of the operator is made in state-of-the-art FMS (Full Mission Simulator). There the pilots are familiar with the intercults and characteristics of the fighter and write their first hours in the “air”.

Technicians start their F-35 “career” at Florida’s Elgin Air Base and before reaching the actual plane, they practice digital models and models. To date, 2,685 pilots and 17,260 technicians have been trained.