Top Gun Update is out

Javis said:
Ahh! Ok!

And i see even with good ol' Tom at the controls, unlike Captain Kilmer (must've had other things to do..)

1. Will it be on any streaming services, you think ?

Just saw Tom Hanks' 'Greyhound' on AppleTV. 2. I was mainly interested in the CGI which turned out unbelievable ! (each shot only 3 seconds or so, they need to work on that...;-) There is no commonality between the CGI sea scenes and what's going on on the bridge of the ship. They need to work on that too. (build the whole bridge on a movable platform like they did with "Das Boot" ). Seeing the CGI sea sequenes on a huge movietheater screen would be awesome but that's not going to happen so it seems.

Thanks!
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1. Not for a while. It is making fist full of money on the silver screen.

2. Then you will like this movie, although, you will not know they are CGI. SPOILER ALERT There are flying sceens of a F-14. That was actually a F-18 that CGI turned into a F-14.
 
jmig said:
1. Not for a while. It is making fist full of money on the silver screen.
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No doubt!

2. Then you will like this movie, although, you will not know they are CGI. SPOILER ALERT There are flying sceens of a F-14. That was actually a F-18 that CGI turned into a F-14.
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Link please :)
 
Tom Clayton said:
Iceman is in it - he's an admiral.
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Yes, saw that but unlike TC, who looks to be the best client of his own workout facility, Mr.K seems to have been practising hard to fly a desk instead of an F-14.. The ice sorta melted on him, he turned into the Puddleman now.. :)
 
To go supersonic, I do it like real life, I just use a shallow dive from about 33K ft to punch through mach unity and then pull up. I know the training flight doesn't allow that. I now need to figure out how to add autopilot to it. IRL, you wouldn't hand fly it at Mach 9 and I'm tired having to use pitch trim to fly it at MACH 9.
 
Sundog said:
To go supersonic, I do it like real life, I just use a shallow dive from about 33K ft to punch through mach unity and then pull up. I know the training flight doesn't allow that. I now need to figure out how to add autopilot to it. IRL, you wouldn't hand fly it at Mach 9 and I'm tired having to use pitch trim to fly it at MACH 9.
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If you figure it out, please let us know. I agree. This bird would have an autopilot in real life.
 
This one is a very nice real life documentary. The story of a young girl and a young guy who were inspired by the first Top Gun movie and realized their dream to fly Tomcats for the Navy even during the cat’s last action in Iraq:

Speed & Angels:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1112756/
 
Today is the day to try the F/A-18E
How can the baseball cap pilot be change?
Nose wheel, which button assignment steering?
 
To change the pilot figure, go to the MSFS "OPTIONS" window and select "GENERAL OPTIONS", and then select the "MISC" menu. If you set the pilot figure to "DEFAULT", it will place a modern fighter pilot dressed figure in the cockpit. You also have to have it set to DEFAULT in order to have the pilot displayed with Maverick's helmet when using the Top Gun movie paint scheme. Alternatively, no matter which aircraft you are flying, you can also now select a modern fighter pilot figure (male/female), as shown below.




For nose wheel steering in the F/A-18, there is a key assignment called "SET NOSE WHEEL STEERING TO LIMIT" (easy to find by just using the search function) and I have it assigned to a pinky switch on my CH Fighterstick. I don't know if it is required, but I also have my rudder pedals assigned to the "NOSE WHEEL STEERING AXIS" assignment, in addition to the regular rudder pedal axis assignments.

 
You don't have to have the nose wheel steering axis assigned, I don't think. I want to say that's for tillers in airliners (for the default planes anyways) but I don't have mine mapped for the F-18.

I would add that you should set a keybind for SET G LIMITER so you can toggle NWS off before takeoff.


1. Bind “SET NOSE WHEEL STEERING TO LIMIT” in your control options

2. Bind “SET G LIMITER” in your control options

3. When ready to taxi, press the “SET NOSE WHEEL STEERING TO LIMIT” button that you just assigned. You should see “NWS” in the center right of your HUD. This button is a toggle, it toggles between “NWS”, regular Nose Wheel Steering, and “NWS HI”, Nose Wheel Steering High which allows your nose wheel to turn to a higher degree.

4. When you are lined up on the runway and ready to begin your takeoff roll, press the “SET G LIMITER” to disable Nose Wheel Steering.
 
Javis said:
Yes, saw that but unlike TC, who looks to be the best client of his own workout facility, Mr.K seems to have been practising hard to fly a desk instead of an F-14.. The ice sorta melted on him, he turned into the Puddleman now.. :)
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To be fair Val Kilmer is recovering from throat cancer in real life. I like that even though they were extremely competitive in the first film, they became life long friends. I guess they were on the same side after all. :wiggle:
 
Bomber_12th said:
To change the pilot figure, go to the MSFS "OPTIONS" window and select "GENERAL OPTIONS", and then select the "MISC" menu. If you set the pilot figure to "DEFAULT", it will place a modern fighter pilot dressed figure in the cockpit. You also have to have it set to DEFAULT in order to have the pilot displayed with Maverick's helmet when using the Top Gun movie paint scheme. Alternatively, no matter which aircraft you are flying, you can also now select a modern fighter pilot figure (male/female), as shown below.




For nose wheel steering in the F/A-18, there is a key assignment called "SET NOSE WHEEL STEERING TO LIMIT" (easy to find by just using the search function) and I have it assigned to a pinky switch on my CH Fighterstick. I don't know if it is required, but I also have my rudder pedals assigned to the "NOSE WHEEL STEERING AXIS" assignment, in addition to the regular rudder pedal axis assignments.

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One more question
Can fuel tanks be added,and open canopy?
 
centuryseries said:
To be fair Val Kilmer is recovering from throat cancer in real life. I like that even though they were extremely competitive in the first film, they became life long friends. I guess they were on the same side after all. :wiggle:
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Very sorry to hear that, i did not know. Also did not know he was married to Joanne Whalley. Lucky b. (heavenly angel in Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective. One of the best TV series ever). His palmares as an actor is very impressive. He speaks thru an AI device with which his own voice is recreated. That's impressive too. Learn something every day. Thanks!
 
ZsoltB said:
One more question
Can fuel tanks be added,and open canopy?
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No and no, unfortunately. They have said in dev Q&A's that they want to add opening doors/canopy to the default aircraft but they want to do them all, instead of just some here and there. Which I don't really think is a great reason not to add them to new default aircraft like the F18 but whatever.
 
ak416 said:
No and no, unfortunately. They have said in dev Q&A's that they want to add opening doors/canopy to the default aircraft but they want to do them all, instead of just some here and there. Which I don't really think is a great reason not to add them to new default aircraft like the F18 but whatever.
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If I remember correctly, the Touching Cloud Super Warrior F-18 does have a operating canopy. However, SU9 broke it. So far I haven't seen a fix.
 
Indeed the Super Warrior mod is still unavailable for now. Waiting for it, desperately :/
 
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