Elevator trim wire snaps mid-flight

[rotorhead1026]

Well a flight control system malfunction is a required NTSB report.

I'm glad somebody finally brought this up.

FAA won't necessarily inform NTSB, btw.

 

[write-stuff]

Yessir it was - and would you believe this: the tower declared emergency for me - never once declared it myself - and now the FAA is asking for lots of nice paperwork and info.

Makes you not want to give them heads up on stuff like this - all I told them was "just a heads up - we're planning on landing but may need to go-around" because of the issue.

You sounded very cool and under control. I think maybe we were on Approach when we heard you, but maybe it was a tower. Don't remember.