My own first emergency landing
 

So the other day I'm flying out of PHL to ALB with First Officer Groovinaviator and he's at the stick and right after "gear up" we get the STAB TRIM and MACH TRIM master caution messages. No biggie. I reach down and push those bad boys back in and about a second later the same DING comes over my headset. Try it again and again, "DING". Well, by now I am getting irate because I have to call Philly Departure and try to read the QRH and make sure that he's flying the airplane OK, which he is.

I tell them we'll climb to 5000 feet (as cleared) and we'll maintain heading and I'll call them back when I get a chance, we have a trim problem.

They were cool about it and gave us vectors and we landing on 27L in PHL with about 800 fire trucks and cops and their families out for the excitement and they all followed us back to the terminal. Or so it seemed.

It was pretty late and of course the company was able to rustle up another airplane for us to complete the flight. Can you say, "Seven legs".

Anway, Groovinaviator is a stud. Flew the airplane perfectly and we came around and landed Flaps 20 (QRH procedure). Smoothest landing of the whole trip. And the airplane was out of trim the whole time.

The man is a right wing nutjob, but he can sit right seat for me any day he can put up with me!

Good job young man! Keep working on your twin time and maybe one day you can grow up and be a CRJ captain..... :D

Anyway, I guess anything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It was a learning experience and worked out just like it should have. Cool. What wasn't cool was that when we finally got to ALB we had been on duty about 14-15 hours. That's not cool.

Groovinaviator...a God amongst men. Must be all that time he spent flying around with me in Kansas...:D

I've had that happen maybe fifty time, only happens with AP selected to the FO's side. Trim only didn't reengage once and that definately elevated the pulse rate. Returned to the field and MX walks onto the plane reaches down, pushes the buttons and the trim engages.

Who is this chosen one you speak of? Grovinaviator. Sounds like the next charles lindbergh.

A/P was not on. Won't engage without trim. Every I would re-engage the trim it would disconnect. Definitely something wrong with the airplane.

Young Skywalker handled it well.

Now I re-read your post. The XFR switch would have been on the F/O side. Interesting. Still, something was wrong if it will only work properly on the Capt. side. I am not sorry we went back to PHL.

He's someone I touched on both sides of the shoulder and put my blessings on.

Now that sounds awfully sexual :eek:

It wasn't Kansas that put that intestinal fortitude in him. It was Parks. :)

Saab, glad to hear everything worked out. It sounds like you guys earned your pay on that one. Well done!

Doesn't sound like the trim didn't have a future there...

What airplane was that? There was one I remember that always did those farking transient trim messages but I don't recall it off hand...we always got it reset without issue though.

Just wait until you get to do a no-flapper!

Thats a spicy meatball...at least in the ERJ!:D