Dassault Rafale B

[Liam]

Tres Bien! congratulations.

[scifi1972]

This morning, I found some cool pictures of a Rafale B under construction. There are very fine details of the landing gear bays.

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=49303

[Bjarne]

Scifi, ton travail est magnifique. Je veux bien être bêta-testeur si tu veux . Bon ok j'arrête de dire n'importe quoi mais j'ai hâte à ce qu'il sorte ! Tu le rendra public ?

[scifi1972]

Merci Bjarnes,

Je reste modeste ; mon Rafale est loin d'être aussi abouti que le F-14 par défaut de FlightGear. Il sera tout de même plus évolué que le T-38 ou le YF-23.
Je le rendrai bien sûr public sur le CVS officiel. Les versions beta seront mises en ligne auparavant sur un autre site.

J'ai bien avancé sur le FDM. L'appareil atteint les vitesses de l'original (1.900 km/h max) et se montre très stable en palier. La sortie des volets ne provoque plus le mouvement de roulis que j'avais constaté au début de mes expérimentations.

Il me reste (dans le désordre) à :

• Refaire le stick et la manette des gaz
• Ajouter des textures dans les entrées d'air et les logements du train d'atterrissage
• Animer la post-combustion
• Animer quelques instruments de secours du cockpit virtuel
• Terminer les textures du VC
• Nettoyer et commenter les fichiers de config XML
• Tester... et corriger...

Et là on pourra parler de version Beta



Mon projet n'est pas fermé. Toute personne qui veut participer (pour faire des repaints, améliorer le FDM, fournir des photos détaillées, modéliser de nouveaux armements, convertir le HUD dans la nouvelle API, corriger mes erreurs , etc.) est la bienvenue.

[DarthChocolate]

Excuse me, but can you speak English? Other people can understand it too.

[Bjarne]

There are somme pictures for you :





I think you saw them but I put these pictures again for more information.

Sorry for bad English :s

[grtux]

Hello
Now, 20h30
A very sad news, two Rafale M ( from carrier CdG ) have crashed in mediterranean sea, only one pilote has been recovered, may be rescued if he is still alive (we don't know ).
Regards

[scifi1972]

Hi DarthCholocate!

Sorry for the message in French. Bjarnes was asking if the model will be freely available.
Of course it will be the case. The final version will be published on the official CVS. Meanwhile, some beta versions will be available for download on an other website.

But there are still a lot of things to do before a first release :

• Re-modeling of the HOTAS system
• Creation of some textures for the landing gear bays and the air entries
• Animation of some redundant instruments in the virtual cockpit
• Creation of the missing textures for the VC
• Cleanup of the various XML files
• Post-combustion and light effects
• Testing... and fixing...

I'm currently quite satisfied with the FDM. The plane is very stable and respects the speed limits of the real one. I had some strange roll-in moves when opening the flaps, but it's fixed now.



I have nothing new to show today, because I'm still modeling this damned stick. It seems that there are approximately 30 buttons on both stick and throttle!
So I posted an external view of the cockpit to make you have patience...

[scifi1972]

Two French Rafale fighter aicraft from the carrier Charles de Gaulle crashed in the Mediterranean on Thursday during a test flight, the military said.
One pilot has been rescued, another is still missing.

The Rafale, made by Dassault Aviation, is France's most advanced fighter. Brazil has been negotiating to buy the aircraft, which would be its first export order.

The accident took place about 30 km from the southwestern city of Perpignan. A spokesman for Dassault had no comment.

"It was a training mission, not an operational mission. The search is continuing for the second pilot," an armed forces spokeswoman said. A rescue vessel, a civilian helicopter and two military planes were taking part in the search. Source: Reuters

Never good news to hear...

[jiraya66]

Décidément les gens aiment bien se crasher au large de perpignan entre les rafales et l'a320

[scifi1972]

I'm still working on the VC... The stick and the throttle have been redesigned and the rudder pedals have been added.
I have no idea what to display on the two lower MFD. And you?

[stuart]

scifi1972,

This looks great! I was climbing in Haute Durance a couple of weeks ago, and saw what I initially thought were Eurofighters flying at low level through the valleys a couple of times. However, I now think they must have been Rafale.

I don't know what is displayed on the lower MFD IRL. The display on the bottom right in the picture looks like it show fuel and engine information.

I look forward to flying this in FG!

-Stuart

[DarthChocolate]

This looks neat! I would like to fly it soon.

[scifi1972]

Here you can see the results of my first experimentations with the light effects.
Not too bad, after just 20 minutes of work

[DarthChocolate]

When are you going to send beta release?