Dassault Rafale C

3D / Textures / Animations

• Complete and highly detailed 3D model
• 36 liveries, including a selection of operational and special schemes, split into several 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 target tracking
• 25+ interactive accessories, including weapons, 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 (FBW) 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 has a direct impact on aircraft weight, drag, balance, and performance
• Functional terrain-following system based on actual topography
• Custom autopilot with all its modes, including altitude hold, heading hold, flight-plan following, and more
• Custom autothrottle, including Rafale’s 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
• Partially implemented radar logic
• 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 with:
  • WASM optimization to ensure smooth display even at lower FPS
  • Navigation, speed, altitude, attitude, and aircraft-state information
  • Combat-mode symbology, including air-target tracking
  • ILS approach and synthetic runway display
  • Flight-plan symbology and waypoint projection
  • Terrain-following-specific display
• Center display screen with:
  • Moving map and several map backgrounds, including French DIRCAM map style
  • Airspace zones and airports display
  • Radar traffic display
  • Flight-plan display
  • Navigation and situational-awareness tools
  • Vertical tactical situation display mode, providing a side-view representation of the tactical environment
• Lateral screens with more than 20 implemented pages, including:
  • Aircraft systems pages, such as fuel, electrical, and hydraulic systems
  • Flight plan configuration pages
  • Navigation pages
  • COM and IFF pages
  • Radar and mission-related pages
  • Warning, failure, and aircraft-status pages
• 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 / Lights

• 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
• Custom lighting effects inside and outside the aircraft
• Custom weapon, explosion, impact, and fire effects
• Adjustable map lights with free positioning
• Simulation of screen backlighting affecting the cockpit ambient light

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
• Possibility 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, Damocles pod, and more
• 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 with physics-based trajectories and realistic, customizable release sequences
  • Droppable stores for emergency release simulation
  • Droppable fuel tanks, including RPL701 and RPL741
• Fully custom AI traffic generation system for interactive mission scenarios, controlled from the EFB, allowing users to:
  • Spawn aircraft installed in the simulator library with a desired configuration, including position, heading, altitude, and speed
  • Simulate air-to-air training scenarios with several compatible aircraft
• For PC users with the additional patch:
  • 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

Cameras

• Custom cameras created specifically for the aircraft
• Custom cameras allowing launched weapons to be tracked in flight
• Ability to jump directly to the target aircraft or selected ground target depending on active mode

User Experience / 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