Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Human-Machine Interface
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe
Flight Crew Landed As Precaution; Flight Crew Returned To Departure Airport; General Declared Emergency
Aircraft; Human Factors
Upon takeoff we got an EICAS message; Pitch Trim Main; fail. As the Non Flying Pilot I finished the After Takeoff checklist which I was in the middle of doing and reached for the QRH. I then followed the instructions while communicating with ATC about the situation. The First Officer notified me that there was a nose pitch up tendency and it was hard to control. After following all the procedures I declared an emergency and headed back. We landed without further incident and were escorted to the gate by the fire trucks. Continue to look over emergency situations. Company can make sure all items are fixed properly if it had a history over recent days.
During takeoff phase of flight just after positive rate; PITCH TRIM MAIN FAIL appeared on EICAS. The trim was inoperative and stuck at 8 degrees up. I continued to fly the airplane while the Pilot Monitoring contacted ATC and advised them we had a problem to work out. At a safe altitude we ran the QRH checklist for the problem. After no change of the present problem; we declared an emergency and returned. Fire trucks were waiting as we landed safely with no incident. The fire marshals did a look over the outside of our aircraft on the taxiway and gave us the all clear to taxi back to the gate. Continue to apply training given in the flight sim.
EMB145 flight crew experiences a MAIN PITCH TRIM failure at rotation. After climbing to a safe altitude QRH procedures are complied with and the flight returns to the departure airport.