EICAS

From Rise: The Vieneo Province

Engine Indication and Crew Alerting System

EICAS is an acronym for Engine Indication and Crew Alerting System.
One interlinked system that informs the crew about aircraft operation and warnings about abnormal settings or situations.


EI (Engine Indication)

The Engine Indication shows normal operational information such as:

  • Fuel available
  • Weapon states
  • Ship Mass

The screen in the ship center is used to show engine output and direction.

If the engines are in reverse the box above the engine with show a amber REV.

Ship structures that are damaged will show up in red.


CAS (Crew Alerting System)

The CAS stack has 4 level of notifications.

  • Red Critical Failure.
  • Amber Warning.
  • Cyan Notifications.
  • White level

In the aircraft Red and Amber messages flash a master warn light.

To simulate that we flash the “Scroll lock” and you have to press “Scroll lock” to turn off the master warning light

Red Warning

Some examples of Red level warnings.

  • Trim out of spec when you apply take off power.
  • Parking Brake on with take off power or in flight.
  • Flaps miss-configured for take off.
  • Wing temp at Critical levels.

As you can see each of these examples is a life threatening situation.
To get crew's attention a red level warning triggers a triple chime.

Amber Warning

Some examples of Amber warnings.

  • Cargo/crew door open.
  • Thrust Augmentation off or damaged.
  • Yaw damper off or damaged
  • Wing Temperature above 125C

These messages all require immediate action to remain non life threatening.
Each amber level will trigger a single chime to get the crew attention.

Cyan level notification

Some examples of Cyan warnings.

  • Parking Brake on while parked.
  • Caps lock on

These messages are simple warnings that the crew has things configured in non take off settings.

White level

At this point we do not have any White level notifications.