Hundreds of pupils and pupils of Heraklion Crete They had the opportunity a few days ago to enjoy a unique experience. Live a flight to a F35 simulator built by a Heracliot, Costas Kefalas, who declared an aviation lover and exactly how his love was the basis for his effort, which lasted about six months.
“It all started with my love for the Air Force, but also the aviation in general. But while I thought it was my passion and that what would be created would be something that would just reaffirm how I was feeling, eventually something completely different came up, “he says and he is sure to be sure. Behind his words, he hides great pride which his creation exceeded his own expectations.
“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 Inside the simulator, “said his creator, who stressed that it is unlikely when maneuvering begins, the one who sits in the simulator to feel dizzy as he sees three -dimensional and has the sense of the height of the flight, the simulator.
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 attempts he managed to create a simulator, With complete assimilation of the cockpit in all configurations and other non -secret characteristics.
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 Municipality of Heraklion and Secondary Education Address, entitled “We come to you”, with invited students and high school students and with the aim of coming closer to the profession of pilot.
“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 boasting not only for what I managed to create and see in front of me that the children are happy but also why nourishing great Love for aviation, I feel great that what I made can lead children closer to the aviation and why not, they can also become pilots in our Air Force fighters, that is, proud Icarus. “