Now that Top Gun: Maverick is lastly reaching theaters, the matching Microsoft Flight Simulator enlargement is launching as nicely. Microsoft and Asobo Studio have launched the free add-on to each hype up the Tom Cruise film and provide you with a style of the US Navy’s real-world flight coaching. You’ll get a “Maverick Edition” livery for the F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jet, however you will additionally discover ways to land on an plane service, carry out fight maneuvers and navigate difficult terrain at low altitude.
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There’s additionally a extra fantastical factor. You’ll fly a fictional hypersonic plane from the film, the Darkstar, that may push Mach 10 and climb above 150,000 ft — for context, even the SR-71 Blackbird did not handle sustained flight past 85,000 ft. This could be the closest you will get to seeing Earth from the stratosphere, to not point out touring at speeds that make cross-continent flights appear trivial.
Both the film and sport add-on have taken a very long time to reach. Top Gun: Maverick was initially slated to debut in July 2019, however the mixture of motion sequence filming and the COVID-19 pandemic pushed it again a number of occasions till Paramount settled on its May twenty seventh premiere. As the Flight Simulator enlargement was carefully tied to the movie, Microsoft and Asobo delayed the sport content material from November 2021 to this month. It’s protected to say each will really feel overdue when you’ve ever wished to enterprise nicely past the boundaries of Flight Sim’s regular civilian plane.