Helicopter Type Dynamic Motion Seats

ACME’s helicopter seats provide motion cues to emulate the sensations felt during the entire mission, from engine start to shutdown, lift-off to touchdown, ground ops to flight ops.  The seats use a patented, all-electric system with individual motion plates/pans that provide motion cues directly to the crew’s body. The key to realistic motion cueing is not just the number of motion channels; it’s the seamless interaction between the channels to provide complete, realistic, motion cueing. In True Q® seats, multiple motion channels work together to provide a single cue at each moment in the simulation.  Cueing speed is critical for replicating the environment and ACME’s motion seats excel at rapid-fire small transients and large channel excursions. The seats can simultaneously replicate the tiny pulses, vibrations, and turbulence plus the changes of g’s, attitude, and acceleration felt in the aircraft.

The seat also smoothly handles the transition between normal and inverted flight. And, unique among cueing systems, motion seats provide cueing for Feel It In All Six Degrees of Freedom g-onset using motion and sustained g’s using pressure on the crew’s body.  ACME seats can be ordered as a single seat or shipset (two-seat) system. The shipset is designed for systems where both seats are driven by the same flight model inputs such as for pilot & co-pilot or weapon system operator (WSO) seats . The shipset system can drive both the pilot and co-pilot seats using just one motion seat computer.