Dassault Rafale C New
Experience the first officially licensed Dassault Aviation Rafale C* for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. Developed by AzurPoly in cooperation with JFEXP, this detailed rendition brings one of France’s most advanced aircraft to the simulator with a high level of care, immersion and functionality.
Built to go far beyond a conventional aircraft package, the Rafale offers a rich and modern simulation experience with a wide range of innovative systems and interactions. This add-on is designed to... Experience the first officially licensed Dassault Aviation Rafale C* for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. Developed by AzurPoly in cooperation with JFEXP, this detailed rendition brings one of France’s most advanced aircraft to the simulator with a high level of care, immersion and functionality.
Built to go far beyond a conventional aircraft package, the Rafale offers a rich and modern simulation experience with a wide range of innovative systems and interactions. This add-on is designed to deliver one of the most complete and engaging modern fighter experiences in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.
Designed to remain accessible without sacrificing depth, it includes assistance options, automatic procedures and integrated checklists for new users, while offering experienced sim pilots a complete modern military aircraft experience.
This is a fully native MSFS 2024 aircraft, developed over nearly two years and built from the ground up around the simulator’s modular architecture, with the expertise of Fly and Fight and direct input from Rafale pilots.
IMPORTANT - DRM
This product uses a DRM system and requires an active internet connection while using the aircraft. Activation is automatic and links the product license to your gamertag.
CORE INNOVATIONS
Several major systems have been developed specifically to make the Rafale feel more alive, interactive and distinctive within the simulator:
- A fully custom fly-by-wire system, developed without relying on the default MSFS implementation, with dedicated control laws, flight-envelope protections and several simulated operating modes adapting to aircraft configuration and flight conditions.
- A functional terrain-following system based on actual topography, supported by dedicated HUD and avionics symbology.
- A complete custom avionics suite built around an advanced head-up display, three main screens and four auxiliary displays.
- An extensive payload configuration system with ready-to-use presets, unlimited custom presets and a direct effect on aircraft weight, balance, drag and performance.
- A functional weapon system including air-to-air missiles with target tracking and air-to-surface bombs with target designation.
- A fully custom AI traffic generator controlled from the electronic flight bag, allowing compatible aircraft from the user’s simulator library to be spawned at a selected position, altitude, heading and speed for formation flying and interactive training scenarios.
- Aircraft-specific camera modes providing contextual viewpoints designed around mission-related situations.
Beyond these defining systems, the Rafale includes a broad range of features covering every aspect of the aircraft experience.
3D, TEXTURES AND ANIMATIONS
- Complete and highly detailed 3D model.
- 14 liveries included in the base package and additional liveries available through separate livery packs.
- Highly optimized textures to ensure strong performance, including on consoles.
- Optimized 3D model using LODs and the MSFS 2024 modular aircraft system, with more than 60 individual attachments.
- Animated canopy, airbrake, landing gear, control surfaces and external elements.
- High-quality cockpit modeling with detailed materials, wear and labels.
- Displayable mechanic avatar for pre-flight inspection.
- Simulated tire deformation.
- Canards and elevons animated according to flight physics and FBW logic.
- Animated angle-of-attack sensors reacting to current aircraft parameters.
- Animated front-sector optics during object observation.
- More than 25 interactive accessories, including external stores, smoke pods, covers, protections, ladder and more.
- Fully custom animated Rafale pilot with natural head movements.
- Fully custom Rafale helmet based on the Gallet LA100.
FLIGHT DYNAMICS
- Flight model developed alongside Rafale pilots, with a focus on reproducing the aircraft’s specific handling characteristics.
- Fully custom fly-by-wire system, designed to get as close as possible to a realistic delta-wing simulation without relying on the default MSFS FBW implementation.
- Custom flight-envelope protections and control laws.
- Multiple simulated FBW modes, with different maximum G limits depending on aircraft configuration and flight conditions.
- Payload directly affecting aircraft weight, drag, balance and performance.
- Functional terrain-following system based on actual topography.
- Custom autopilot with all its main modes, including altitude hold, heading hold and flight-plan following.
- Custom autothrottle, including the Rafale-specific angle-of-attack hold mode.
- Functional recovery system for spatial-disorientation situations.
SYSTEMS
- Reproduced electrical system with its main components and operating logic.
- Custom fuel system with automatic fuel transfer logic and external fuel dumping.
- Custom hydraulic and pneumatic systems based on the real aircraft architecture.
- Functional radar providing airborne contact detection and dedicated avionics displays.
- Numerous controller bindings associated with HOTAS buttons, cockpit switches and aircraft systems.
AVIONICS
- Reproduced avionics suite with four main screens and four auxiliary screens.
- Custom flight-plan management system with support for imported flight plans.
- Custom alarm and warning system integrated into the avionics suite.
- Advanced head-up display providing essential flight, navigation and aircraft-state information, together with ILS guidance, synthetic runway display, flight-plan symbology, waypoint projection, terrain-following indications and context-specific avionics cues.
- Center display with moving map, multiple backgrounds including a French DIRCAM map, airspace zones, airports, radar traffic, flight-plan information and situational-awareness tools.
- More than 20 implemented lateral display pages covering aircraft systems, flight-plan configuration, navigation, COM, IFF, radar, mission functions, warnings, failures and aircraft status.
- Auxiliary screens with their main functions implemented, including artificial horizon, fuel and engine status, chronometer and more.
- AzurPoly’s movable EFB tablet allowing extensive customization of the aircraft experience.
SOUND
- Immersive sound package crafted by Echo19, based on real recordings.
- Dedicated AI and multiplayer sounds.
- Replicated alarms and voice alerts.
- Detailed cockpit environment sounds for improved immersion.
- Switches, buttons, canopy, landing gear, payload and interaction sounds.
- Exterior flyby and distance-based sound behavior.
EFFECTS AND LIGHTING
- Realistic afterburner effect reflecting air density, shifting from orange to blue at high altitude.
- Sophisticated interior and exterior lighting.
- Custom heat-blur effects.
- Rafale-specific wing-vapor effects.
- Custom airshow smoke based on flight physics.
- Custom engine-startup smoke.
- Adjustable map lights with free positioning.
- Simulation of screen backlighting affecting cockpit ambient light.
- Detailed flare and environmental effects.
- Custom weapon, explosion, impact, and fire effects.
INTERACTIONS
- Integrated pre-flight walkaround using MSFS 2024 interaction features.
- Every cockpit switch and knob is clickable and has an actual impact on the aircraft.
- Multiple exterior latches and panels can be opened.
- Ability to climb and walk on the aircraft using the ladder.
- Interactive covers, protections, pins, accessories and external elements.
- Physics-based “remove before flight” ribbons.
- Cockpit interactions designed for mouse, controller and hardware bindings.
PAYLOAD & WEAPONS
- Wide payload display capability for all users, including MICA, METEOR, GBU-12, AASM-250, SCALP, RPL701, RPL741, smoke pods, the Damocles pod and more.
- Functional weapon system with visual and environmental effects: air-to-air missiles with target tracking, realistic trajectories, and simulated impact effects on the target; air-to-surface bombs with target designation; functional cannon with realistic salvo trajectory and simulated effects on air targets.
- Dedicated payload selection page on the EFB, including multiple ready-to-use configuration presets and the ability to save custom presets.
- Payload configurations affecting aircraft weight, drag, balance and performance.
- Droppable payload objects as independent sim-objects including functional flares, droppable stores and external fuel tanks.
- Fully custom AI traffic generation system controlled from the EFB, allowing users to spawn compatible aircraft from their simulator library at a selected position, heading, altitude and speed, and to create formation flights and interactive training scenarios.
CAMERAS
- Custom cameras created specifically for the aircraft.
- Contextual camera modes linked to mission-related situations and active avionics functions.
- Ability to jump directly to a selected aircraft or ground point depending on the active mode.
USER EXPERIENCE AND ACCESSIBILITY
- Automatic startup procedures for beginners.
- Complete checklists integrated into the simulator.
- EFB assistance options.
- Scalable complexity, allowing casual users to enjoy the aircraft while still offering depth for advanced users.
Please read the complete manual on our website for a detailed presentation of all implemented features and operating procedures.
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