Narrative:

During climb out; not long after takeoff; we got an engine #2 bleed leak. We followed the aom procedure and shut off the bleed; after which; we contacted dispatch and maintenance control. We were told that because the bleed leak indication went out after the bleed was shut off the aircraft was good to continue [at a maximum of FL250]. My concern was that we may not have the fuel because we were filed for FL370. Dispatch ran the numbers and said we had the gas. The weather was clear; the destination airport was reporting no restrictions and good weather; so I decided to continue. The flight went well. We were keeping a close eye on our fuel and I discussed with my first officer that if we were not seeing the fuel burn we were expecting we would divert for more fuel. We got to ZZZ and they started vectoring us for the approach. I told the first officer to report min fuel to let the controller know we needed min vectoring. My first officer saw the airport before I did due to the orientation of the aircraft and I told him to call it so we could get cleared in. I ended up high on the approach and asked for a 360 to get down and we were told to take up a heading of 180 degrees away from the airport and we heard them start vectoring another flight toward the airport. At this point; after considering our fuel and not knowing how far out ATC was going to take us; I decided to declare an emergency. ATC started us back toward the airport and asked if we had traffic for our intended runway in sight and could we follow them in. I told my first officer that we had declared an emergency and asked him to tell ATC we would be going straight for our intended runway to land. ATC had the traffic break off and cleared us to land. We made a normal landing and taxied to the gate.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An E145 flight crew; forced to cruise at FL250 vice their planned 370 due to an inoperative bleed; declared minimum fuel followed by a fuel emergency at their destination. The flight crew believed ATC to have been unresponsive to their needs.

Narrative: During climb out; not long after takeoff; we got an ENG #2 Bleed Leak. We followed the AOM procedure and shut off the bleed; after which; we contacted Dispatch and Maintenance Control. We were told that because the Bleed Leak indication went out after the Bleed was shut off the aircraft was good to continue [at a maximum of FL250]. My concern was that we may not have the fuel because we were filed for FL370. Dispatch ran the numbers and said we had the gas. The weather was clear; the destination airport was reporting no restrictions and good weather; so I decided to continue. The flight went well. We were keeping a close eye on our fuel and I discussed with my First Officer that if we were not seeing the fuel burn we were expecting we would divert for more fuel. We got to ZZZ and they started vectoring us for the approach. I told the First Officer to report min fuel to let the controller know we needed min vectoring. My First Officer saw the airport before I did due to the orientation of the aircraft and I told him to call it so we could get cleared in. I ended up high on the approach and asked for a 360 to get down and we were told to take up a heading of 180 degrees away from the airport and we heard them start vectoring another flight toward the airport. At this point; after considering our fuel and not knowing how far out ATC was going to take us; I decided to declare an emergency. ATC started us back toward the airport and asked if we had traffic for our intended runway in sight and could we follow them in. I told my First Officer that we had declared an emergency and asked him to tell ATC we would be going straight for our intended runway to land. ATC had the traffic break off and cleared us to land. We made a normal landing and taxied to the gate.

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.