Tom Cruise is a licensed multi engine rated pilot, however...
https://www.cinemablend.com/news/15...olved-vomiting-choking-and-a-pilot-named-bozo
For our first flight in the morning, we were going really hard, moving around. We did 9.5 gs, very hard on my body. I had a vomit bag right here, so in between takes I leaned down to quickly empty my guts in the bag. The second I did that, he pulls up. My head was literally on the ground from the pressure. I was pressed on the floor, holding my vomit. I kept going 'Bozo! Bozo!' I was choking, and he just kept pulling up and up. Finally he released, and we were going straight ahead. I was like, 'Bozo, what's the matter with you, man? Didn't you see my head was on the floor?' He was like, 'Well I told you, they don't call me Bozo for nothing.'
Most civilian aircrafts out there are not capable of producing the near instantaneous g-forces and sustain that figure in a maneuver. The initial near instant g-force is enough to make untrained people 'blow chunks', as how we in the USAF say it, but the sustained g-forces is additional stress on the body and the physical conditioning to withstand them is what make the fighter pilot type a bit different.
When I was active duty, my first jet was the F-111, not a jet that everyone associate with 'dogfighting'
vis-a-vis Top Gun. However, I discovered the -111 turned out to be more agile and maneuverable than publicly perceived. Even without flying in terrain following (TFR) mode, the initial near instant g, while not 9 like the F-16/18 can produce, the F-111 will temporarily exceed rated g stress and make a person blow chunks. Then when I got transferred to the F-16, it was like going from a Harley to a Moto GP.
The pilot Bozo, and others like him, do not care of anyone's celeb status. In the cockpit and in the air, what you are made of in terms of physical conditioning and psychological fortitude to force your body to handle the stress are what matter. In the company of Bozo and his fellow pilots, Cruise is essentially a nobody, no disrespect to Cruise, of course.
