Narrative:

After rotation we received a landing gear air/ground fail message on the EICAS. The first officer called positive climb and I called for gear up. The gear would not come up so I told him to push the down lock release button and pull the gear up. The gear retracted and the landing gear air/ground message went away. We performed the after takeoff checklist followed by the QRH for landing gear air/ground fail message. The QRH told us to continue the flight; avoid ice and contact maintenance. We contacted maintenance and informed them that we had the message appear but it went away. They told us to continue to destination. On approach we put the gear down and the message reappeared about a minute later and stayed on the rest of the flight. On our next flight during cruise I again reviewed the QRH for the landing gear air/ground fail message. I found three pages before a checklist for gear lever cannot be moved to up after takeoff. I reviewed this checklist and found we had not complied with it. This is when we determined that the event occurred. During climb out I decided to retract the gear believing it was an air ground failure issue. I recalled the button was to be pressed when the gear would not come up so we did. Using the mena checklist order we performed the after takeoff checklist first then went to the QRH for the abnormal checklist. Please add a link between the landing gear air/ground fail checklist and the gear lever cannot be moved to up after takeoff checklist in the QRH.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: EMB145 flight crew receives a LG AIR/GND FAIL EICAS message after rotation and the gear lever will not move to the up position. The Captain asks the First Officer to push the down lock release button and select the gear to the up position; which is successful and the LG AIR/GND FAIL message goes away. The crew later discovers that a QRH procedure exists for the gear handle will not move to the up position and that pushing the down lock release button is not part of it.

Narrative: After rotation we received a Landing Gear Air/Ground Fail message on the EICAS. The First Officer called positive climb and I called for gear up. The gear would not come up so I told him to push the down lock release button and pull the gear up. The gear retracted and the Landing Gear Air/Ground message went away. We performed the after takeoff checklist followed by the QRH for Landing Gear Air/Ground Fail message. The QRH told us to continue the flight; avoid ice and contact Maintenance. We contacted maintenance and informed them that we had the message appear but it went away. They told us to continue to destination. On approach we put the gear down and the message reappeared about a minute later and stayed on the rest of the flight. On our next flight during cruise I again reviewed the QRH for the Landing Gear Air/Ground Fail message. I found three pages before a checklist for gear lever cannot be moved to up after takeoff. I reviewed this checklist and found we had not complied with it. This is when we determined that the event occurred. During climb out I decided to retract the gear believing it was an air ground failure issue. I recalled the button was to be pressed when the gear would not come up so we did. Using the MENA checklist order we performed the after takeoff checklist first then went to the QRH for the abnormal checklist. Please add a link between the Landing Gear Air/Ground Fail Checklist and the Gear Lever Cannot Be Moved To Up After Takeoff Checklist in the QRH.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.