"Computer Gaming World" in 1991 said that "Chuck Yeager"s graphics and flight models impressed a Vietnam War combat pilot, and predicted that it would be "popular with both flight sim veterans and newcomers". A survey in the magazine that year of strategy and war games gave it four and a half stars out of five, a 1993 survey in the magazine of wargames gave the game three-plus stars. and a 1994 survey gave the Macintosh version ("a few minor improvements") four stars out of five. In 1994, the magazine stated that "Hellcats Over the Pacific" and "F/A-18 Hornet" had better graphics on the Macintosh but "Chuck Yeager" flying was more realistic, despite the lack of a rudder. The magazine concluded that it "is worth a test flight, especially for we Mac-types who must live on a thin diet of top-flight games". In 1996, the magazine ranked it as the 35th best PC game of all time.