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Now that Top Gun: Maverick is finally reaching theaters, the matching Microsoft Flight Simulator expansion is launching as well. Microsoft and Asobo Studio have released the free add-on to both hype up the Tom Cruise movie and give you a taste of the US Navy’s real-world flight training. You’ll get a “Maverick Edition” livery for the F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jet, but you’ll also learn how to land on an aircraft carrier, perform combat maneuvers and navigate challenging terrain at low altitude.
There’s also a more fantastical element. You’ll fly a fictional hypersonic aircraft from the movie, the Darkstar, that can push Mach 10 and climb above 150,000 feet — for context, even the SR-71 Blackbird didn’t manage sustained flight beyond 85,000 feet. This might be the closest you’ll get to seeing Earth from the stratosphere, not to mention traveling at speeds that make cross-continent flights seem trivial.
The movie and the game took a long time to arrive. Originally, Top Gun: Maverick was scheduled to premiere in July 2019, but the mix of action footage filming and the COVID-19 pandemic delayed it several times until Paramount premiered on May 27. As the expansion of Flight Simulator was largely delayed due to the movie, Microsoft and Asobo delayed the game’s content from November 2021 until this month. It’s safe to say that anyone will feel defeated if they’ve wanted to venture beyond the limits. of the same old civilian flight sim aircraft.