Haven’t booted up the Sim today, but…I did finally get around to seeing Top Gun: Maverick.
What an absolutely stunning film!
Everything about it was just perfect, the acting, flying, especially the music. The track, “Darkstar”, is well, very fitting with what I think of when actually flying the Darkstar. (Also, RIP )
And the fact that all of pilot actors were in REAL F-18s (not actually flying them, they were in the rear seat with a camera rig). Also, the SU-57 was completely CGI. Had me fooled. Might have to pick it once a decent one hits the Marketplace.
All in all, it really makes me appreciate the Sim more. The Maverick DLC just isn’t for “funsies”. If you’re aviation fan, you’re no doubt a fan Top Gun.
Don’t know why the Dark Star challenge has us do an inverted dive to break the sound barrier when you can just level off for a bit and then pitch down. The roll+inverted dive is certainly not in the movie so we’re not imitating Maverick’s flying.
It’s weird, because the second time I flew the Darkstar, I was able to get it up to Mach 10 in Stratospheric Flight, but haven’t been able to do it since.
Don’t know if something changed or I’m just not doing it right.
Are you at least able to do the maneuver to accelerate from just over Mach 1 to Mach 3 before switching to the scramjets? That’s the part that I find the most tricky. (I have some other issue once I’m hypersonic that I think is related to a control device/control mapping thing, but I haven’t had time to troubleshoot it because of being out of town and away from my HOTAS setup a lot over the past few weeks.)
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