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Chapter 8.8
EICAS
Introduction
The Engine Indication and Crew Alerting System (EICAS) displays primary engine indications
and also provides a centrally located crew alerting system for non-normal situations. The
system also shows the status of systems not otherwise displayed on the flight deck.
On the ground, EICAS additionally provides maintenance personnel with a variety of system
data.
EICAS Architecture
Two EICAS computers receive inputs from engine and system sensors. The information from
the sensors is displayed on two Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs) as dials and digital readouts of
warnings, cautions and advisory messages.
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This allows the flight crew to still retain a full capability in the event of a CRT failure, or if the
lower CRT is being used for status displays (or maintenance displays on the ground). In the
compacted mode, the primary engine indications are shown in their normal format, whilst the
secondary information, and oil system indications are shown in a digital format.
Crew Alerting
The crew-alerting portion of EICAS continually monitors all of the aeroplane systems, and if a
fault occurs, or any system fault light illuminates in the cockpit, the EICAS will display a crewalerting message on the upper CRT. In addition to the display messages, some crew alerts are
also indicated by aural tones and Master Warning/Caution lights.
All crew alert messages are divided into one of three categories:Warnings (Level A). These are indicated, in red, and reflect an operational or
aeroplane system condition that requires immediate crew awareness and prompt
corrective action. These are the most urgent types of crew alert, of which an engine fire
is a typical warning.
Cautions (Level B). These are indicated in amber, and reflect an operational or
aeroplane system condition that requires immediate crew awareness and future
compensatory action. These are less urgent than warnings; of which an engine
overheat is a typical caution.
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Warnings are indicated by red messages at the top of the message list, and are also arranged
according to their urgency, and order of occurrence.
Cautions appear as amber messages below the lowest warning.
Advisories appear below the lowest caution and are also indicated by amber messages. They
are also indented by one space so that they can be distinguished from cautions.
The most recent warning, caution and advisory message appear at the top of its respective
group of messages.
A message is automatically removed from the display when the associated condition no longer
exists, and then all messages that appeared below the deleted message will move up one line.
If a new fault occurs, its associated message is inserted on the appropriate line of the display,
which may cause older messages to move down one line. For example, a new caution message
would cause all existing caution and advisory messages to move down a line.
If there are more messages than can be displayed at one time, the lowest message will be
removed, and a white page number will appear on the lower right side of the message list.
Messages bumped from the bottom of one page will automatically appear on the next page.
The Cancel and Recall switches are used to manipulate the message lists. Pushing the Cancel
Switch will remove the caution and advisory messages from the display.
Warning messages cannot be cancelled.
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White, status messages will additionally appear on the right side of the status display. These
messages will indicate any equipment faults that require awareness at dispatch, particularly
those that are not otherwise shown on the flight deck.
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