Thrust & Shoot: Flight School

Thrust & Shoot: Flight School is a single-player, 3D space fighter simulator built around real physics. You play a cadet taking the Academy’s flight trials to become a certified combat pilot, learning to use inertia and plan maneuvers rather than expecting your fighter to handle like a boat or an airplane. You fly what is essentially a rocket with guns strapped to it, and earn medals according to your performance in each mission.

Flying in space

Braking and strafing are possible but not essential. Unlike capital ships, which have maneuver thrusters that can push along every axis, fighters rely on turning and using their main thrusters to maneuver. Their guns fire straight ahead, but in hard vacuum you can turn the ship to aim in any direction.

Flight trials

Each mission teaches and tests a different kind of combat scenario. Bronze marks basic ability; silver and gold require increasingly polished tactics and precision. The Ace medal marks expert performance and takes skill, patience, cunning and considerable luck to earn.

• Basic Flight: Learn the controls and shoot down unarmed targets.
• Obstacle Course: Race for faster times and higher medals while practicing flight and maneuvering, with practice targets to destroy along the way.
• Point Defense: Protect your mothership from incoming missile salvos by intercepting attacks and shooting down moving targets.
• Assault: Destroy enemy fixed defenses, dodge incoming fire and use precise flying to attack weak points.
• Dogfight: Fly a combat patrol and eliminate enemy fighters.