CH-47 Advanced Cockpit Management System

This paper describes the Advanced Cockpit Management System (ACMS) that Boeing has developed for application on the Chinook family of helicopters. The ACMS provides the functionality required to perform day/night and adverse weather missions, and is flexible and modular enough to satisfy customer specific requirements. The ACMS utilizes a federated architecture comprised of three loosely coupled equipment groups. The Pilotage group is that set of equipment the pilot requires to fly a typical aircraft and is considered “aircraft independent”. The Air Vehicle group provides controls and displays for the Chinook specific equipment. The Mission group provides customer specific avionics such as communication, navigation, aircraft survivability and mission equipment.