Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 180; Flight Crew Total 3300; Flight Crew Type 346
Situational Awareness; Troubleshooting
Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Smoke / Fire / Fumes / Odor
Air Traffic Control Provided Assistance; Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; Flight Crew Returned To Departure Airport
Aircraft
On the initial climb; right after rotation; [we] started smelling a strange odor in the cockpit. We pointed it out and got back to it after we finished our after takeoff checklist to troubleshoot. At the same time; we notified ATC of the issue that we might be returning back to the field so they gave us a heading that keeps us around the airport. While we were trying to find the electrical burning type odor smell; we called the flight attendant and he also confirmed the that he smells the same electrical burning type odor and he had never smelled such a thing before and neither me and my First Officer did in the past of our career time.We decided to return to the field. Right after we decided to return to the field and started the preparation for it; the smell started to dissipate; so we chose not to notify it to ATC as an emergency to see if it going to go away; and it did. We landed back in our departure Airport and made a maintenance write up about it for company to inspect it the issue. We noticed that there were no caution or master lights while the smell was in the environment neither circuit breakers were pulled.
EMB-145 Captain reported they started smelling an electrical burning type odor in the cockpit after takeoff.