Narrative:

Upon lowering the gear we got an EICAS outboard brake inoperative message. Ran QRH and landed safely. As we taxied in the inboard brakes were heating up into the caution zone and outboard were cold. After contacting maintenance control they had me go out and physically check if the inboard brakes were hot and outboard were cold. They were. The next test was to turn the pumps on and pump the brakes to check the brake pins. Outboard were not working. The next question they asked me was if I felt comfortable ferrying an airplane without the outboard brakes working. I declined. I told them that if we have an abort and the inboard failed or the buckets fail we could have a total loss of the aircraft. When contract maintenance showed up maintenance control asked them if they would write a ferry permit to fly without the outboard brakes working. They refused. They then had me turn the pumps on and pull circuit breakers. I found one breaker but had trouble finding the second breaker. I asked him what the book said on the location of the breaker and he said 'I don't know. I don't have a maintenance manual for that aircraft.' is this legal to use the wrong book? Anyway; I found the right one and reset the system. I get back to my base safely with no further incidents and met another captain in the crew room that was asked to deadhead to ferry my plane out because I refused. I do not think you can legally ferry a plane with only one set of brakes or MEL the faulty brakes. And them asking us to do it is unsafe and unsatisfactory.stop pressuring pilots to risk there lives instead of fixing the problem just to get their completion factor numbers.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An EMB145 EICAS alerted OUTBOARD BRAKE INOP so the QRH was completed and during taxi the inboard brakes heated while the outboard remained cool. Contract Maintenance could not fix the brakes and both the pilot and Mechanic refused to authorize a maintenance ferry flight.

Narrative: Upon lowering the gear we got an EICAS Outboard Brake INOP message. Ran QRH and landed safely. As we taxied in the inboard brakes were heating up into the caution zone and outboard were cold. After contacting Maintenance Control they had me go out and physically check if the inboard brakes were hot and outboard were cold. They were. The next test was to turn the pumps ON and pump the brakes to check the brake pins. Outboard were NOT working. The next question they asked me was if I felt comfortable Ferrying an airplane without the outboard brakes working. I declined. I told them that if we have an abort and the inboard failed or the buckets fail we could have a total loss of the aircraft. When Contract Maintenance showed up Maintenance Control asked them if they would write a ferry permit to fly without the outboard brakes working. They refused. They then had me turn the pumps on and pull circuit breakers. I found one breaker but had trouble finding the second breaker. I asked him what the book said on the location of the breaker and he said 'I Don't Know. I don't have a Maintenance Manual for that aircraft.' Is this legal to use the wrong book? Anyway; I found the right one and reset the system. I get back to my base safely with no further incidents and met another Captain in the crew room that was asked to deadhead to ferry my plane out because I refused. I do not think you can legally Ferry a plane with only one set of brakes or MEL the faulty brakes. And them asking us to do it is UNSAFE and UNSATISFACTORY.Stop pressuring pilots to risk there lives instead of fixing the problem just to get their completion factor numbers.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site 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.