The guy has good hands and feet for sure, very smooth.

It was all looking great and professional except for the silly Hollywood lights in his skydive helmet...

With dual hydraulics, one gets a 'limit' caution panel light before the servo transparency. I don't know what happens after that?
Never had a servo transparency issue with dual hydraulics. Singles? Oh yes! and it can be very inconvenient.

It's amazing. How many flight hours would he have?

He has been flying for quite a while, he owns a P-51 Mustang too. I gave him a helicopter lesson back in 2003, he already had a good feel for flying.

I really enjoyed that video and outtakes. Despite what people think he is certainly one talented person. Half his luck!.

Very proud of our team at Meeker-Airfilm for making all the mounts you see used on the rotary wing assets. lots and lots of design and machining went into this project!

Have to say - nothing against this guy at all, so no grudge to bear but the film in general was quite implausible from the start and simply got worse.
The helo shots went from ridiculous to appalling.
Nothing looked right, these so called spirals did not come across as anything spectacular and portions of the action like trying to ram hiis helo into the other or surviving the horrendous mid air were absolutely pathetic.
overall it didn't show him at his best and certainky didnt do anything to attribute to his training as a helo pilot.
He flies the damn thing with wvery caption lit up and with the entire gearbox and engine aflame and still flies as if it was business as usual.
an insult to the industry and i couldn't get out of there fast enough.
Sheer junk overall. Don't waste your money - go see The Equaliser2 instead!

In la la land where they issue FAA CPL,s... does one have to sit all the exams we need to sit in easa land?
If so - does one honestly believe that TC sat all those exams AND passed them first time....with his filming schedule?
Give me a break. Something doesn't add up.
Did he really fly 200hrs and all those exams just to fart around in a helo on sunny days???

Only two written exams and two checkrides between hour #1 and CPL in the US.

Can't say it's THE Tom Cruise, but searching on his name in the FAA database brings up all the right answers. It looks like he was already a commercial fixed wing pilot, so he would only have had to do the private and commercial helicopter checkrides with the minimum amount of rotary wing flight hours. With his money and dedication he could have banged that out in a month or two.

My understanding is that there were two overspeed incidents, neither of which occurred during filming. The most serious, at 465rpm resulted in replacement of the starflex and the sleeves. The other required only an inspection. AFAIK no other dynamics were replaced.

Haven't seen the movie but saw some previews and the line that caught my attention was when the token bimbo says to Mr Cruise "You can fly a helicopter?". No buxom wench asks me "You can act?" then wants to bonk my brains out because she has a few minutes spare in her agenda.

Movie is boring..
Flying stunts are ok, but bit unrealistic.
CGI rules nowadays....