Flight management system

Flight management system

A flight management system or FMS is a computerized avionics component found on most commercial and business aircraft to assist pilots in navigation, flight planning, and aircraft control functions.

It is considered to be composed of three major components: FMC (Flight Management Computer), AFS (Auto Flight System), and Navigation System including IRS (Inertial Reference System) and GPS.

EFIS (Electronic Flight Instrument System) is not an FMS component, though it is an important interface between FMS and pilots.

FMC is taken as the core of FMS, which works as a head of the whole system. Its primary function is to:
* Give out real-time lateral navigation information by showing the route programmed by the pilots, as well as other pertinent information from the database, such as standard departure and arrival procedures. This information combined with the location of the aircraft creates a moving map display.
* Calculate performance data and predicted vertical profile. Based on weight of the aircraft, Cost Index and Cruise Altitude, preferably with predicted wind, FMC calculate a most fuel efficient vertical path that AFS would follow if AFS is engaged and both of VNAV and LNAV are engaged.

Flight Management Computer

A Flight Management Computer is a computer carried on an aircraft to integrate the functions of navigation and performance management. It is composed of 2 kinds of database: Navigation and Performance of a certain aircraft. The FMC is the heart of the modern aeroplane's electronic systems, and gathers information from other subsystems.

The Flight Management Computer is located in the cockpit between the pilots' seats, beneath the main panel. It's composed of one or more displays with keypads.

The computer features a persistent read-only internal memory containing data for airports, approach and departure procedures, airways, holding patterns, and other information. The FMC can also control the chosen ATS route, most data coming from the aircraft sensors, the pilot's inputs, weather conditions, etc.

Auto Flight System

AFS is the super system of all the systems that enable an aircraft to fly. FMS is the operating system of the AFS.

If FMC is taken as the "head" of the system who does the calculation and gives out command, AFS is the system who accomplishes it. AFS is composed of AFDS (A/P-Autopilot-F/D-(Flight Director) and A/T(Autothrottle) if the aircraft is equipped with A/T. It is the one who flies the airplane with one hand on the control wheel (when A/P is engaged), and the other hand on the throttle (when A/T is engaged). Only when the mode LNAV and VNAV, or LNAV, or VNAV is engaged, AFS would totally or partly follow the flight path FMC commands.

Navigation System

The Navigation System is mainly composed of IRS (Inertial Reference System) or AHRS (Attitude Heading and Reference System) and GPS (Global Positioning System), as well as existing physical navaids such as VOR-DME. The IRS or AHRS provides raw information that is crucial to flight, such as attitude and heading. The Navigation System sends navigation information to the FMC to calculate, to the AFS to control the aircraft, and to the EFIS system to display.
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EFIS

EFIS, as a display system displays flight information including command from FMC and real-time information such as attitude, heading, position, planned route and flight track, etc. It is composed of EADI (Electronic Attitude Display Indicator) and EHSI (Electronic Horizontal Situation Indicator), or on some aircraft PFD (Primary Flight Display) and ND (Navigation Display). Either displays lateral or vertical flight information.

External links

Makers
* [http://www.cmcelectronics.ca CMC Electronics]
* [http://www.honeywell.com/sites/aero/Flight_Management_Systems.htm Honeywell]
* [http://www.lhsystems.com/topic3/topic33/index.htm Lufthansa Systems]
* [http://www.rockwellcollins.com/products/cs/br/avionics-systems/flight_management/index.html Rockwell Collins]
* [http://www.thalesgroup.com/aerospace/ Thales Aerospace]
* [http://www.uasc.com/ Universal Avionics]
* [http://www.smiths-aerospace.com Smiths Aerospace]


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