High alpha could be better, but it’s really what you make out of it - I’ve never had any issue.” It depends what you make of it – I’ve never had any issues.” So it’s two different aircraft – when it’s in air-to-air mode it’s very good. Instantaneous turn and sustained turn pretty good. When you’re in air-to-air all this stuff is pretty good.
Rafale flight full#
Then you have with bombs and full tanks, when your performance is not as good: about +5g and about 200 degree roll rate less – so it’s two different aircraft. you have two types of ‘flying the aircraft’: you have the air-to air mode where you pull +9 Gs up to 11. Instantaneous turn/ High alpha/ Sustained turn How you rate the Rafale M in the following categories? Like most of them, the ECS (environmental control system) is pretty noisy. the omni-role stuff is very impressive it can really switch extremely fast from air-to-ground to the air-to-air mission.”Īnd the worst thing? “The worst thing would be the noise.
Rafale flight how to#
It is very very responsive, very good situational awareness if you know how to manage all the screens and everything. In French, the word ‘nerveux’ is often used to describe a twitchy, responsive car that is quick to accelerate, I have replaced nervous with ‘responsive’)
(* Até actually used the English word ‘nervous’, not responsive, throughout his descriptions of Rafale. First impression was the thrust, speed, comfort – the fact the aircraft was really sanitised for sound so you have no clue what speed you’re flying at - you really have to look at the instruments. It is very agile, very responsive* when you’re light and very very manoeuvrable… you can easily bump your head, I bumped my head twice on the first flight! Flight controls are very different as you can barely move the stick, it’s just centimetres compared to the former flight control system of the Super Étendard, so it took me couple of hours to get used to that. ‘ It’s a space shuttle!’ was my first impression. We spoke to him to find out more about the Rafale, a remarkable fighting machine, a masterpiece of design and a strong contender for the title of best combat aircraft ‘all-rounder’. From the perilous deck of an aircraft carrier, Pierre-Henri ‘ Até’ Chuet took the Dassault Rafale M into combat in Iraq.
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