Of course, the armchair Top Guns won’t be in the wild blue (or greyed out) yonder themselves. Lemoine, call sign Mover, and fellow former F/A 18 pilot Trevor “Gonky” Hartsock will do the flying while the gamers try to hang on. “We’ve all heard it before, right?” the show stars propose in their pitch for funding for the pilot. “‘I’m good at this simulator, so I could easily fly a real fighter jet!’ Instead of just rolling our eyes, what if we could actually put them to the test?” According to Forbes, the fundraising is going briskly and at least two gamers might get that shot.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/gamers-may-get-dream-shot-in-real-dogfight