AzurPoly Fouga CM.170 Magister | Full Flight Review | Microsoft Flight Simulator 

I own a real Fouga Magister Patrouille de France, and I use this version for simulation. It is very realistic and well done.

As french, I obviously had to stand up at the very beginning of the video for the "Marseillaise" :-) Thanks for this review

This plane gets the job done! Feels great, moves greater. No frame rate drops for me. No CTD's. First from maker and I will continue to support if they continue to deliver this quality at that price.

Awesome that someone got around to making this. I don't know too much about the Magister but I do quite like its kind of odd design. Jet trainers are always a pleasure to fly due to simplicity and agility. Great video!

Bought this when it was on sale and then forgot I had it and never flew it. I gave it a go today and absolutely love it. Like the classic jet feel and it is modelled beautifully.

A cautionary point to make (that I failed to specifically mention during the review), the cockpit labelling is entirely in French! This may be of interest to you, if your French is anywhere near as good as mine. . . ; ) On another note; can anyone tell me why on earth the Magister's front tyre is shaped such as it is? Cheers everyone! : )

Love this plane. Great video man and as always a pro.

Excellent review and beautiful video! The Magister is not really my cup of tea, but it is certainly beautifully modelled.

Hey man, awesome review as always! I just got into msfs (coming from games like war thunder) and I am absolutely loving it. I just picked up this beast because there's something about the interior that really speaks out to me...anyways thanks for the review!

Great review! The Fouga is one of my favs from my hangar in FS

Couldn't resist and bought it today (special offer in the marketplace) for only 15 bucks. Great fun to fly.

I though the twitch in the loop was your hitting your own slipstream. Hello again, great review.

Great Review as Always from you! Thank You.

Yes. From what I can find online, the landing light lens is smooth. There's multi LED versions for replacement but that appears as an array of yellowish "jewels" inside the globe. Added in Edit: I notice in all of your videos that when you check the flight controls in fore/aft/port/starboard and then rudders. Not that it matters and it's really an esoteric and philosophical discussion but my instructor taught me to "box" the controls to check for binding. The way that works is, with a stick, go forward corner to corner, aft corner to corner and simultaneously actuate rudder pedals. Works the same with a yoke but the "feel" is different. Do this until you can visualize the responding control surfaces. Forty year old instruction applied in very low real world time so take it for what it's worth.

Thanks for the review, thorough as always! It looks like a really interesting plane, and beautiful too! But it's a shame about the few issues. Hopefully they sort those out. I might end up nabbing this on sale as I've got the MB-339 and although they look quite different, I'm not sure I really need two aerobatic/trainer jets... They're kind of the same role.

Thanks for the review. I liked the plane. I will buy.

This plane seems pretty decent. Was considering buying it but then decided to check out your review first and that was over a month ago but better late than never eh? Think I'll plop it on the wishlist and maybe pick it up in the future. Thanks for the review, great video as always. I liked the new camera views you did for the taxi section. Now to catch up on a months worth of your vids. Only 6 or 7 to go!

casual tree avoidance there when you took off! that tree is also known by the air traffic control staff as the 'widowmaker'

Another simply magnificent review, cheers dude. I’m on the fence on this one though. £21 seems ok just not sure I’d fly it much, still very keen on the Hawk (helped by the fact that the F-35 is still buggy) but the Twin Otter has really grabbed my attention. Currently down in Gibraltar with it having flown down through France stopping off at several places I’ve been to down the years 😀. Anyway, will come back to this review in a week or two and decide whether to grab a purchase.

I agree with you 100% . I crashed twice on almost touch down from lack of elevator at around 100 nots + to compare to the competitor fouga I had no problem to greas her in every landing. after watching yours I am going to try again . but yes somthing wrong with the cg or flight mode. maybe we will see a fix.

As usual, a very nice review. Totally agree on the flight model, the aircraft feels too buttery. No buffets, no bad habits whatsoever (aside from approach) which is what I believe you are describing as "too much MS flight simulator" in character. Mushy stall, no spins. Perhaps Azurpoly will come up with a replacement flight model to sharpen it up a bit but who knows, having never flown the real thing perhaps it's correct as is? 🤔 In all other respects I love the model, first class work. Thanks again for the review.

Thanks for the review, subscribed. I'm not a pilot so I have no idea what I'm talking about, but I'm a snob when it comes to flight sims, for example I like how the JF Hawk feels and I spend most of my time in DCS. Hopefully as time goes on developers will be able to get rid of a bit of that "MSFS feel" in flight models.

Don't forget the plane probably has metric gauges excluding the altitude. So your climb out speed is 240 kph. All your other speeds were flown at half the value basically :p

Fun fact, the Fouga Magister was used by the Katanga breakaway government in the Siege of Jadotville (Congo) in the 1960's against Irish UN peacekeeping force. It was sent there to bomb the UN troops who were dug in. Subsequently the Irish Government purchased a number of Fouga Magisters for the Irish Air Corps and were in service for years and were also used by the Irish Defence forces display team called the Silver Swallows. Seen them a good few times. They are all retired now but there is one on display in Dublin at Collins Barracks Museum.

The Israeli air force also used it as a trainer for the longest time, it is was later replaced by another trainer

Great review, as always! Would trimming more NU for landing than normal lessen the nose heaviness?

I purchased the Fouga, too, and I fully agree with you. It's a fun and honestly beautifully modelled plane to fly in the sim but I question the actual realism of the flight characteristics. A V-Tail normally behaves very unstable around the vertical axis, tap the rudder and let it go the nose will swing around a couple of times. Also these long wings would create a noticable banking when one wing swings forward. So I would have expected it much more wobbly but I can't speak about this aircraft from personal experience of course, but I also find the elevator very heavy on approach. I found 120 kts to be a great speed over the numbers but the high Alpha break wasn't possible there either. The CG is quite off in the load menu, maybe that's a cause? In general terms I really love this plane though, all above if I compare the value for that money to other turbine aircraft that have recently been released. Namely compared to the Twin Otter, AzurPoly have created a beautifully mixed and absolutely immersive sound set. The 3D model is superb, the cockpit looks beautiful. There are some very significant bugs in the gauges, the artificial horizon shows around 1/2 bank and 2 times the pitch or so, the VSI is incorrect and when I dialed in the Kodiak VOR last night it wanted to send me somewhere towards the west all the time when the VOR was at 190 degrees. The devs will certainly have to update it, I hope this won't take months with that market place exclusivity. It's a nice addon over all and I already know I won't just park it in the hangar. The rudder: I assume you have seen the recent Q&A with Asobo where they demonstrated their new implementation of propeller physics and the effect of prop wash on the airplane. Together with this "new stream of air" they almost HAVE to rework the rudder. I can't imagine how this should work when the added airflow will hit the currently oversensitive rudder. I won't hold my hopes up high to make sure I'm not disappointed but Asobo MUST rework the rudder physics at some point. Their flight model(s) have improved a lot but this is one still glaring flaw. Fingers crossed!

Saw one at an airshow back in '94 or '95, and I found the photo I took of it back then in the air, too bad I can't share it with you here.

You can keep this plane in the air for hours if you use the same mechanics as a glider. Use the engine to gain some height, find the thermal updraft, engine to idle - you can even turn it off I think -, glide, repeat.

i think i've seen that twitching from FSRealistic in other aircraft. it's possibly their attempt to induce head bob/airframe shudder by manipulating the camera. i seem to recall the devs saying that (as per usual) SDK limitations prevented them doing a proper implementation.

Be good to know if that high wind noise is in actual fact FSRealistic. Finding on the TB-30 even with FSR off, the canopy noise is high compared to engine volume. Many thanks for you efforts again on the vid. Cheers.

Aha...I thought that front tyre was just my eyes lol!

great video, how does it compare to the MB339? interested in your opinion as both reviewed, thanks

I got this aircraft recently, but relatively often, it seems like the engines are losing power. Like they're almost cutting out for like a second or so, then coming back on. Think it mostly happens on full throttle. Is this normal and realistic behavior of maybe being on full throttle for too long or something? I haven't experienced this with any other jets I own for the sim. Thank you in advance, and apologize if it's a stupid question! :)

The tiptanks must be empty before aerobatic routine is entered to prevent overstress on wings.

but why did they take out a paid one if you can download it for free on the french page of the plane I don't understand greetings

Too beautiful to resist. I'll chance they tweak the flight model. The front wheel is authentic according to this photo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fouga_CM.170_Magister#/media/File:Fouga_magister_01.jpg Great review as always. Thanks!

How do you adjust the pitch trim on this darn thing?

Wonder if they will do the Zephyr too

hmm, I don’t know this plane at all, but the cockpit textures make my heart beat. :D so I suppose sooner or later I will have her. I just have too many now on my list… :D

Fuel burn is unrealistically fast. I get less than 300nm. Any thoughts? Thank you

They also modeled the Bede BD-5J.

Any updates to this mod? Is it worth it in sept 2023?

When comes the Australian Uptade ?

they have updated this now

Dosnt seem to be very realistic. V1 reached quite fast actually it takes about 14 to 19 secs in actual aircraft and controls are very smooth not so sensitive

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what airport is this?

Isn’t this the plane that shot down the head of the UN in Africa?

Looks like a pretty cool plane but the all French is a no go for me sadly. I'm obviously glad to see international developers as it brings a personal side to these aircraft but with my disabilities the cockpit labels are so important as I just can't remember what does what in more than 2, maybe 3 if simple/clean looking, cockpits so to not have an English language pack with it sadly put it in the inaccessible category for me. Looking forward to watching the video none the less and will keep an eye out if the lack of translation changes

Total stupidity, whenever they throw in a commercial that I cant skip, it absolutely guarantees I'll NEVER buy that product. Other than that, I enjoy your videos.

I think you are confusing the clean behavior of the Fouga Magister with a Microsoft FS behavior. The CM170 is very very hard to spin, and you had the landing procedure totally wrong. The simulation is actually pretty close to the handling characteristic of the Fouga

Thanks for mentioning the French cockpit labelling. I believe that the French view English as a threat to their native tongue so it is no surprise that they have not included an English Language pack. Although the itranslation is no problem to me, I will definitely give this one a miss. Thank you for your excellent review.

Is there a Roman Air Force livery?