For extras they could easily get actual pilots, since they wouldn't need much acting experience. But it'd be harder to find experienced actors who also happen to be trained in piloting jets.

@@rosenthorn_ yea omg would of been so hard to find a pilot to say the three lines of dialogue each of the characters had throughout the entire FILM. Thank god they had expert actors

@@austism1 sounds like your agreeing with rae?

@@austism1 Actors do a thing called acting and so are available to act. Pilots tend to be busy piloting.

I would assume the pilot extras were actual US Navy pilots lol

It seems like the difference between Tom Cruise films and the majority of others now days is green screen. Most "actors" have to learn how to react to a tennis ball; Cruise tests your ability to actually perform in the situation. I'm bored of green screen movies.

this reminds me of Ricky Gervais trashing current Hollywood for making these clown movies which actors have to show up with steroided bodies and form fitting vinyl costumes, standing a lil bit around a green screen and making jokes about each other. And then they get paid millions, ridiculous.

This is a Tom Cruise film...not Marvel.

​@@mortimerbrewster3671Right! This green screen CGI stuff is ok but it just lacks character..something is gonna be sacrificed when you take short cuts

@@mortimerbrewster3671 Much of the water training is because they were flying backseat in actual Super Hornets, and as such they had to have the various ejection training regimes in the event something happened and they had to bail or ditch, all of which is Navy requirements for working in a flight capacity on their aircraft. Cruise could have easily settled for easier ways to do things, but I think he honestly respects the occupation and its inherent physical demands and dangers, and so wanted to ensure his product had that realism built in as best he could.

Who wouldn’t?

More like to put them in danger

@@darknemessis6880 really Karen 😎🤣🤣🤣🤣. FJB

@@thomasthomas9077 Karen? You really sound like one

@@darknemessis6880 To fly highway to the danger zone

@@darknemessis6880 That was an "I know you are but what am I" response. How old are you? Five? You should be happy he was kind and called you Karen. I'll just call you pathetic, weak loser.

Can you share a story or two of what happened to them that required a water survival?

@@CPR12345 Two that immediately come to mind ... First one was in an H-46 that had a sync-shaft failure. They were doing a maintenance test, and the front and rear rotors hit each other. The aircraft broke in half, dumping the crew chief out (sadly, he did not survive). My friend and the other pilot were able to control the front rotor enough to survive the ensuing water landing. The instrument panel collapsed on impact, trapping my friend in the rapidly-sinking cockpit. Because he had gone through D-WEST just before that deployment, he knew that he had the HEEDS (Helicopter Emergency Egress Device - essentially a 2-minute air bottle) in his vest. A deep draw on that air allowed him to calm down enough to untangle his legs and egress successfully. Other one was a controlled ditch in an H-2. The aircraft lost transmission oil pressure over 20 miles from the ship. They turned towards the ship and followed the appropriate procedures for an impending transmission failure. The vibrations increased to the point that they elected to ditch before the transmission seized.. They were about 8 miles from the ship, which was closing fast. Once in the water, everyone was able to successfully egress by following their training. To wit: Stay strapped in until all violent motion has stopped. Find a reference point and release from your seat. Maintain references until reaching an egress point. Push clear before inflating your vest. Both are alive today because of this excellent training, which I can only guess has improved over the years.

Probably just the morning too, whole afternoon for other (mis)-adventures.

Haha no kidding this movie he has to be inside the aircraft😂

I think TopGun Maverick is a perfect movie. It’s an action movie that also has depth. I now have nothing but respect for Tom Cruise. He treated the cast with respect, and it shows. He paid for the cast to get a pilot’s license - out of his own money. That shoes respect, and they replied in kind. I watched the movie again last night, and there were a lot of details I didn’t catch the first time.

You don’t fly if you can’t pass the training so we were highly motivated to pass to do our jobs. We had to do it every four years, no excuses

So true. Behind the scenes of most movies are the "actors" in front of a green screen covered in little black dots.

which part of their 35 seconds of screen time, and dialogue did you like the best ? or was it their cute little nicknames they had for each other ? :)

@@austism1 the moment she handed him the pool cue, which happen to be the first person seeing him because of his name, his glasses or even his social awkwardness, but only as a Top Gun graduate

voice crack man kinda looks like Tom Holland? Or is my eyes just in bad shape

And of course it was the bl ack guy

I felt justified in my stereotyping

Darn.

Which actor did he think was going to tap out?

@@methos-ey9nf He didn't specify. I think it was a case of thinking it would be unlikely for all of them to make it through.

What makes you think they were nowhere near the ocean? Much of this was shot in California. The entire length of it is ocean. Naval Air Station North Island (on the water in San Diego). They flew off aircraft carriers in the ocean. ocean ocean ocean.

@@elizabeth5985 I realize now this wasn't training for background experience as a Naval Fighter Pilot, but for how they prepared for the flight to and from the aircraft carrier.

Not your first time, you didn't.

I could think of a few reasons

ok...

Tom trained with free divers for Mission Impossible and could hold his breath for 6.5 minutes (for that one scene where he had to free dive). I mean.... he is a legend.

VERY GOOD !👍😂😂

Look how far he's come. Maybe that experience is what pushed him to train and do all of the stunts in future movies. Overcome fear.

@@mortimerbrewster3671 Maybe. .

And yet he did. Look at the other behind the scenes: he took them flying in small airplanes first, then bigger, worked out an entire program for them. He is a pilot (of airplanes and helicopters). The dunking was the Navy's requirement, and the actors said so.

@B.L. Alley ahhh ha, clearly didn't think of that. Thank you.

If you go down in a Navy jet, you’re probably going to get picked up in a helicopter.

Yes - at night or in other poor-visibility conditions such as murky water. They do something similar when you're getting a scuba certification.

It is if it puts you in a new environment that presents real risk, tho. The physical stuff like holding your breath and finding the exit in the dunker? In the end, easy. Maintaining your calm and focus so you CAN find the exit....THAT'S the whole point.

said not service member ever

Its part of his melanin rich culture ;)

She is the only one out of all of them that did not vomit at some point in the training.