Meet Dassault Rafale
The Rafale is a twin-engine canard-delta combat aircraft developed for French air-force and naval use. AzurPoly’s background section dates the Rafale A technology demonstrator’s first flight to 4 July 1986 and the full programme’s launch to 1988. The close-coupled canards and delta wing are part of an airframe built around electronic flight control and several mission roles.
AzurPoly’s Rafale C for MSFS 2024 uses its own fly-by-wire implementation, with load-factor demand and protections that respond to configuration and stores. Automatic pitch and roll trim belong to its normal digital law. Canards, elevons and slats move as part of that control system rather than following a conventional airliner flap schedule.
History & design
Demonstrator to operational programme
The developer manual’s historical account separates the 1986 Rafale A demonstrator from the programme launched in 1988. It describes later standards expanding the aircraft’s mission capability. The single-seat C represented by this add-on is one branch of the larger Rafale family.
AzurPoly · AzurPoly Rafale Manual ↗AzurPoly Rafale manual history and variant context.
Commands interpreted by control laws
The manual describes the force-sensitive short stick, normal-law automatic trim and alternate operating modes. The autopilot’s trim-hat use changes attitude targets in its documented modes. These are electronic demand functions; their meaning depends on the active flight-control mode rather than on the appearance of a trim input alone.
AzurPoly · AzurPoly Rafale Manual ↗AzurPoly custom flight-control and AP mode descriptions.
A developing simulator implementation
AzurPoly’s separate change history records low-speed flight-control and autopilot/ILS stability work. The manual and changelog retain their own versions, which matters when comparing the published systems description with a particular installed rendition.
azurpolygroup.com · Resources - AzurPoly ↗AzurPoly resources/changelog.
In your simulator
No released simulator product is listed for this aircraft in the developers reviewed. Announced products are excluded.
Manuals & resources
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Manual
AzurPoly Rafale ManualAzurPoly · AzurPoly Rafale manual history and variant context.; AzurPoly custom flight-control and AP mode descriptions.Aircraft background
Dassault Rafale C - AzurPolyAzurPoly · Aircraft equipment and developer product details. Resources - AzurPolyazurpolygroup.com · AzurPoly resources/changelog.Built-in force-feedback profiles
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AzurPoly Dassault Rafale C
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MSFS 2024
The Rafale is a twin-engine canard-delta combat aircraft developed for French air-force and naval use.
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