Aerobask Dassault Falcon 8X

Falcon 8X

Aerobask · X-Plane 12

Dassault Aviation’s flagship

Update: October 15, 2026

Officially licensed by Dassault Aviation

Functional flight under normal conditions, from cold and dark startup to shutdown.

Officially licensed by Dassault Aviation, our Falcon 8X for X-Plane 12 brings Dassault's ultra-long-range flagship to your simulator with a fully custom recreation of its EASy avionics suite. It is not a rebadged default panel, but a ground-up simulation of the real aircraft's flight management, guidance, and alerting systems.

Every leg of a 6,450 NM range, every knot of Mach 0.85 cruise, is flown the way the real 8X flies it: through its own Primary Flight Control System, its own FMS, its own checklists.

6,450 NMRange

Initial public Beta

Current release

Functional flight under normal conditions, from cold and dark startup to shutdown.

Official Dassault Aviation license

  • Developed under an official license from Dassault Aviation.
  • Authorized use of the Falcon name and the Dassault Aviation brand.

Accurate, Dassault-grade flight model

  • Raw aerodynamic model by X-Aerodynamics/Aerobask.
  • Custom, from-scratch recreation of the real Falcon 8X Primary Flight Control System (PFCS): the actual fly-by-wire laws that fly the aircraft, not X-Plane's stock flight model or autopilot.
  • Digital flight control laws for pitch, roll and yaw, including dedicated takeoff and go-around modes, angle-of-attack.

    The DFCS, based on that of the Rafale fighter, introduced a custom “path-stable” system that trims automatically to maintain the flight path of the airplane.

  • Custom autopilot and autothrottle built on top of the real PFCS guidance loops. X-Plane's own autopilot is not used.
  • Developed and flight-tested with a real-life Dassault Aviation pilot and instructor acting as technical referent and approver throughout development.

FalconEye-style dual HUD

  • Conformal synthetic vision over the real world: terrain, obstacles and airport poles with ICAO identifiers.
  • Synthetic runway: a pole with the runway number from 80 NM, then the   conformal runway below 1,200 ft and 5 NM, with displaced threshold, aiming point marks and approach crossbars.
  • 20 NM extended centerline as soon as a landing runway is selected.
  • Independent brightness for symbology and synthetic vision on each HUD.

A genuine custom EASy avionics suite

  • Complete PDU for the pilot and co-pilot with 5 built-in windows, MDU with all synoptics: FUEL, ELEC, ENG, HYD, ECS, BLD, FCS, FMS setup, Auto Speeds, AFCS, DTLK MGR, D-ATIS, Term WX.
  • I-NAV moving map: iNAV displayable in 1/3 window format, 2/3 window (default selection), full window.
  • Various layers of database information (terrain, airways, navaids, airports, boundaries, airspace, NAT (North Atlantic Tracks)).
  • Integrated Navigraph charts.
  • Synthetic Vision, HSI and Vertical Situation Display (VSD), all custom-built to the real EASy symbology.
  • Full custom FMS with an ARINC 424-compliant leg and procedure processor:
    • SIDs, STARs, approaches ILS/LPV/VGP, holding patterns (all entry types), direct-to, offsets, Cross box (crossing restrictions), What If calculations, Intercept.
    • Aircraft Performance Calculations.
    • Full SimBrief flight plan integration for importing flight plans.
  • VNAV and LNAV guidance following the real EASy logic: climb, altitude capture/hold, geometric path descent, vertical deviation scale, speed scheduling with automatic deceleration anticipation.
  • Guidance Panel / Autopilot with all modes of the real-life model.
  • Electronic Checklist (ECL) system built directly from the aircraft's own checklist data: normal, abnormal and emergency procedures, Active Abnormal linking, deferred items, synoptic pop-ups.
  • Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS/TAWS) with a full aural alerting priority engine.
  • TCAS II traffic advisories and resolution advisories on X-Plane's native collision-avoidance data.
  • RDR-4000-style weather radar: WX/turbulence/ground-mapping modes, custom-rendered volumetric scan on the HSI and I-NAV displays.
  • DCL (Departure Clearance): ATC text messaging (ATC DTLK) over the Hoppie network.
  • Oceanic Clearance (OCL).
  • EFB (Electronic Flight Bag) Pilot and Copilot with complete Do-Lists and many settings/options: aircraft configuration, network, ground, cabin, etc.
  • A lot of detachable 2D options panels.
  • PDU, MDU and EFB: touch screen features for quick and easy handling.

Aerobask quality 3D model

  • Hi-Res PBR textures with detailed objects, fully animated and functional 3D cockpit, animated ground objects, night and day lighting.
  • Functional doors and hatches. Animated cabin with Passenger Control Tablet for lighting control. Functional 3D exterior fuel panel.
  • Smooth wingflex.
  • Several cabin decor options are available.
  • In-cabin entertainment system (TV, animated seats and tables).
  • Windshield/glass with reflections, rain and icing effects.
  • 10 beautiful 4K liveries out of the box, plus one white livery for repaint.

High quality sounds

  • High quality full FMOD environment by Daniela Rodriguez Careri.
  • All samples recorded on a real Falcon.
  • Cabin announcements.
  • Cockpit and cabin atmosphere recreated with bleed effects and more.
  • Accurate doppler, distance attenuation and flyby effects.

Documentation

  • AFM
  • Normal Do-Lists
  • Normal flight profiles
  • Briefings
  • Check-list
  • FAQ - How To

Caution: VR does not support the aircraft.

Next Beta

Planned
  • Fixes for initial bugs.

Later versions

Roadmap
  • Full CPDLC using the real FANS 1/A message catalogue, plus PilotEdge-based departure clearance delivery.
    Depending on what the networks support.
  • Secondary FPL
  • Custom Waypoints
  • More accurate aircraft systems
  • Custom failures
  • Pedestal Emergency panel
  • Ram Air Turbine