Electronic centralised aircraft monitor

It also produces messages detailing failures and in certain cases, lists procedures to undertake to correct the problem.

Airbus developed ECAM, such that it not only provided the features of EICAS, but also displayed corrective action to be taken by the pilot, as well as system limitations after the failures.

ECAM is a series of systems designed to work in unison to display information to the pilots in a quick and effective manner.

The warning hierarchy is as follows: In addition to the three failure levels are following status messages: Some alternatives are: Airbus-developed jetliners have ECAM since the A300-600 and A310.

The Qantas Flight 32 engine failure generated more than 80 ECAM alerts, whose treatment took over an hour to complete.