<< >> NASA ASRS Report 880014, March 2010

The flight crew of a crj experienced a track deviation when they were distracted by trouble shooting apparent binding in the flight controls.

Attributes
ACN	880014
Time
Date	201003
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Regional Jet CL65 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Climb Climb
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Aeroplane Flight Control
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 180 Flight Crew Total 9000 Flight Crew Type 7000
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Track / Heading All Types

Narrative:

During climb I noticed some binding in the controls as we turned. I asked the first officer to try the controls and he agreed with my assessment. As we discussed the problem we missed the course. We got back on course and continued on to our destination. Having the auto pilot deferred as we were discussing the flight control problem added to our level of workload. In our discussion we felt as if the issue might not have been the autopilot; it may have been a flight control issue.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: The Flight Crew of a CRJ experienced a track deviation when they were distracted by trouble shooting apparent binding in the flight controls.

Narrative: During climb I noticed some binding in the controls as we turned. I asked the First Officer to try the controls and he agreed with my assessment. As we discussed the problem we missed the course. We got back on course and continued on to our destination. Having the auto pilot deferred as we were discussing the flight control problem added to our level of workload. In our discussion we felt as if the issue might not have been the autopilot; It may have been a flight control issue.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.