Yes but less control authority either…
You aren’t going to manoeuvre half as effective as you can at SL and will require AB inputs much more than at SL!

This would require adequate data about flight hours and the number of aircraft. At best for every year since its operation or for a single year say 2009 or 2010.

-the F 22 comsumption is no doubt “tres importante” vs Rafale; after all, one of the two F 119 “delivrent chacun pres de deux fois la poussee de M 88”, to qoute the A&C, but the SFC of the F 119 is, at least, as low as M 88 SFC (unless you consider the French angine superior to the F 119 :D); also, the F 22 has almost twice the fuel capacity and is always in “clean” configuration. As I already posted, with internal fuel, the Rafale has a combat radius (A/A) of ~ 400 Nmiles, while an F 22 ~ 600 Nmiles (subsonic both).

Twice the fuel is worth nothing if your aircraft also consumes twice as much and is twice as heavy! I doubt that a 50% range difference can work out like that. Even if we assume a 0.8kg/kg/h SFC figure for both engines. The F119 provides about 11500 kg dry, the M88-2 5100 kg. Internal fuel load of the Rafale C is 4750 kg with 8200 – 9386 kg for the F-22 (depending on which source you want to believe). Empty weight of the Rafale C is 9500 kg vs 19700 kg for the F-22.

Doing an oversimplified calculation (only engine fuel consumption at full mil thrust at S/L):
Rafale C: 35 min
F-22: 26.74 – 30.6 min

Fuel fraction (empty weight plus fuel only):
Rafale C: 33.33 %
F-22: 29.4 – 32.27 %

@Taygivay,
we have to wait for more details about why the pilot couldn’t land on the carrier. Maybe there was a malfunction of the SMS/jettison system, but who knows.

Btw, though I don’t want to go into to much detail in order to avoid derailing the thread, there are some 250+ Typhoons in service right now. It’s not known how many of them are available for flight operations but there should be a great enough number. You have to take into account that the Typhoon fleet sustains a 24/7 QRA commitment 52 weeks a year in 5 countries plus the Falklands and has already provided QRA for the Baltic states and Albania. That’s certainly something Rafales aren’t burdened with. That’s just to put things into the right perspective, because it’s easy to say hey we deployed our aircraft to Afghanistan etc., but ignoring the not permanent commitment for AD. Typhoons are operated from 10 different air bases within 6 countries, that’s a difference in contrast to the Rafales operating from 3 air bases (plus the CdG). You have more aircraft, but they are also more widely spread and each customer has to conduct separate training etc., which in turn means fewer resources for additional deployments next to the training deployments already conducted by the different airforces. Particularly the RAF and AMI have been quite busy participating in various exercises, while the Lw and EdA have rarely participated in exercises out of their home countries. It much depends how an operator uses its aircraft.

It’s close to the Typhoon fleet’s total which shows that our
planes are used more intensively.

I wouldn’t bet on that the Typhoon fleet amassed 50000 flight hours in September 2008! And Typhoon formally started to enter service throughout 2004, in contrast to the Rafale which is in service since 2001. Almost a three years difference.
http://www.eurofighter.com/media/news0/news-detail/article/eurofighter-typhoon-flight-milestone-50000-hours-and-climbing.html

And this latest accident could have happened during a training mission as well.

This is untrue. Compared with a similar size/power MSA, the AESA array is generally credited with having 3x the detection range, due to much higher sensitivity, and more efficiency. It also offers significant advantages in jam resistance, modes of operation, etc….

Exactly what has been covered on the previous page. 3 times the detection range is against much older radars, not contemporary designs! It’s a misconception that AESA radars offer a 3 times longer detection range in comparison to late generation MSA radars.

Geolocation of radar emitters isn’t that easy, particularly not that of moving emitters! And that’s true for any system whether it’s an ALR-94 or Spectra or whatever system.