Hundreds of pupils and students Heraklion They had the opportunity a few days ago to enjoy a unique experience.

To live a flight to a simulator F-35 made by a Heracliot, Costas Kefalas, who speaking to RES-EIA said her lover aviation And how exactly this love was the basis for his effort, which lasted about six months.

‘It all started with my love for the Air forcebut also the aviation in general. But while I thought it was my passion and that what would be created would be something that would simply reaffirm how I was feeling, eventually something completely different came up, ”he says, and it is certain that behind his words, he hides a great pride that his creation surpassed him.

“When the simulator was completed and I made the first flight, although I fly a single-air civil aviation aircraft, I do not hide that I felt shocked,” explains Mr. Kefalas, who created the F-35 simulator and as he says, whoever tries the experience.

“The simulator uses an augmented reality, this means that outside the limits of the cockpit, the one who has the experience of simulation, sees the world as it is at the point where it is, since it is used by high resolution satellite data and in terms of elevation. So we have a complete depiction of the true environment within the simulator, “said his creator, who stressed that it is not unlikely when maneuvering begins, the one who sits in the simulator to feel dizzy as he sees three -dimensional and has a sense of height.

In terms of its construction, which was not an easy task, as it says, different technologies were used, from 3D printing to metallurgical, while one of the most complex points besides the construction, it was the ability to have information about the aircraft.

“The venture was very troubled, as it is an aircraft for which there is little information,” he points out, but after many efforts he managed to create a simulator, with a complete assimilation of the cockpit in all configurations and other non -confidential features.

Following the report that was presented in New Philadelphia some time ago, the simulator F -35 managed to excite the children in Heraklion as part of an action by the Region of Crete, in collaboration with the Air Force, the Municipality of Heraklion and the Secondary Education Directorate, intended to come closer to the pilot profession.

“It is clear that a child who has at least a little bit of the” germ “of the aviation, living a flight to the simulator, will eat as we say in slang,” thick glue “. This is a great pleasure for me, since I am not only boasting about what I have managed to create and see in front of me that the children are happy, but also because by nourishing a great deal of love for the aviation, I feel great that what I made, can lead children closer to the aviation and why not,