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Dassault Rafale ↗Research-based aircraft background

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.

Manual history · Rafale family · AzurPoly Rafale C

Dauphin AS365 / HH-65 ↗Simulator documentation

AS365 N2 / HH-65A · Taog's Hangar · MSFS 2024

Choose the variant to match the mission equipment

The manual assigns different hoists, cargo hooks and firefighting attachments to its nine variants. Career activities follow those configurations; the HH-65B HITRON fit is cosmetic and is listed as a display/free-flight variant.

MSFS 2024 manual V1 · PDF p.83

SourceDownload manual ↗Taog's Hangar
Dauphin AS365 / HH-65 ↗Simulator documentation

AS365 N2 / HH-65A · Taog's Hangar · MSFS 2024

Mission Hub is an additional purchase

The guide describes Miltech Mission Hub support for hoisting, firefighting and sling work, with the platform sold separately. Aircraft equipment and the appropriate variant still determine which activities are available.

MSFS 2024 manual V1 · PDF pp.83–85

SourceDownload manual ↗Taog's Hangar
Dauphin AS365 / HH-65 ↗Simulator documentation

AS365 N2 / HH-65A · Taog's Hangar · MSFS 2024

Two helicopters, two automatic flight-control systems

Taog's AS365N2 uses the AP155/CDV85 installation, while the HH-65A has a different four-axis AFCS and flight-director system. Their upper modes can take control of the collective as well as the cyclic. The manual explains collective alignment, trim-release behaviour and the accommodations for spring-centred desktop controls. The control bindings differ by aircraft variant.

MSFS2024; manual V1 contains references to update 1.2 · PDF pp.8,72,76-77,81; chapters 13-15

SourceDownload manual ↗Taog's Hangar
Dauphin AS365 / HH-65 ↗Simulator documentation

AS365 N2 / HH-65A · Taog's Hangar · MSFS 2024

Variant-specific hardware controls

The binding guide publishes separate input events for the Dauphin and HH-65. Axis values use the documented -16384 to 16384 range, and momentary buttons require both press and release actions. Similar display names do not make the two variants' events interchangeable. The guide lists each variant's event identifiers separately.

MSFS2024; keybinding guide V1.0 · PDF pp.1-4 and Trim Release rows

Dauphin AS365 / HH-65 ↗Research-based aircraft background

Dauphin AS365 / HH-65

The Dauphin developed at Aérospatiale and continued through Eurocopter and Airbus. Its smooth fuselage and enclosed tail rotor became familiar in passenger, police, rescue and government roles. The family includes naval and coastguard derivatives with specialised equipment.

The AS365N2 and HH-65A in Taog's package have distinct automatic flight-control installations. The package's documentation describes the flight-control system for each variant.

Aircraft / family

SourceEurocopter AS365 Dauphin ↗Wikipedia contributors