Game:

Top Gun (1987)

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Tutorial

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To land the plane safely, follow these tips:

(1) Try to make sure to speed up before the landing sequence begins (which seems to always be when you have about three notches left on the fuel gauge). Say, to 700 miles per hour or so. (This advice will be less relevant after mission one but at least it can help you there.)

(2) The only instructions you ought to bother obeying are LEFT LEFT and RIGHT RIGHT. When you see those follow them *instantly*! On several occasions I have otherwise done everything perfectly so far as I can tell but then had the bad luck to see a LEFT LEFT appear for a tenth of a second before the landing cutscene began. Kaboom!

Any instructions on the topic of speed and altitude are, for all intents and purposes, useless. The screen tells you what numbers to aim for (it’s always 200 and 288). But heed those “left” and “right” messages!

(3) I think you should be aiming the nose of the plane upward ever so slightly at the end but I’m not too sure.

(4) You probably won’t succeed if you try to *first* hit 200 and 288 once and then spend the rest of your landing simply course-correcting and trying to keep the numbers as close to those as you can. You’ll probably need to swoop down and slow the plane briefly and then go back to where you were—say, two or three times.

The refuelings follow the same basic principles except that this time *all* of the instructions need to be followed seeing as there aren’t any specific numbers for you to aim for. The biggest thing I’ve learned here is that when the SPEED UP signal disappears you shouldn’t presume to stop increasing your speed at once just because you don’t see it anymore: rather, *keep on* speeding up until you actually see a SPEED DOWN (and vice versa). This does not seem to apply to the UP and DOWN instructions.

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