@ Tartare
According to the late aviation photographer George Hall's Top Gun book ,TC was a tad miffed at not being able pull in the officers club at Happy Hour as all the girls were after chatting up the aircrews!
He funnily enough putting together book at Miramar while they were making the movie by going up with the F-14 crews and using his own camera pod approved for mounting on F-14, F/A-18 and other fast jets
In the book there is quite a few movie stills and he went up in one of the chase planes AND he was up on the peak with 'Rat' the Ops Officer of Top Gun, choreographing the flights. 'Rat' became CINCPAC
Cheers