Emergency declared in my Citation 501. Elevator trim stuck, night single pilot IMC with icing. 

Multi-tasking not allowed in the aircraft!

so..even though there was a checklist it wasn’t a memory item..thus the problem of single pilot flying without a autopilot..fly the airplane first!

@@FlyWithNoam another scenario I had right out of maintenance on a C550 they replaced the elevator trim cables..but rigged them backwards so the acceleration on takeoff with trim set for takeoff had excessive down trim, This was realized immediately after lift off so the faster we got the yoke was pushing the nose down to the runway with a strong push. I processed all this within 3-5 secs. I kept from hitting the runway, slowed the acceleration which eased the control pressure and flew real slow until I put nose down trim which let the flight controls begin climbing the aircraft.There isn't a checklist for reversed trim cables. I just reacted slowly and flew a return pattern and landed. Again, sit back and fly the aircraft and make it go where you want it to go. No time for reading!

Kudos

What an incredible job you did and keeping yourself under control and checked, at night and in IMC conditions with icing building up, top notch.

Stress? Pull the c/b. Then compensate with muscle.

@@FlyWithNoam Ice doesn’t care if it’s night or day. I’ve seen “lite icing” on the windscreen suddenly become like concrete out of a pool guniting hose. Most airlines, as policy, prohibit their crews from flying into reported moderate icing conditions. In flying, caution and avoidance beats bravery and skill everyday. Retired now from 30 years of commercial flying.

Excellent airmanship!! Kudos 👍

@@FlyWithNoam you're more than deserving of it! Honestly

Absolute rubbish. You may as well continue smoking. Very little difference.

Peter, don’t let this scare you. Just go down to your local airport and get an instructor to give you an introductory flight. You’ll love it !

@@mouser485 I've been told that. I might just do that one of these days! Thanks for the encouragement.

Pressurized plane don't think it is an issue people have been smoking on the airlines for years!

@@jeffdo9195 Pilots have been cautioned against smoking for decades, mainly due to degradation of night vision. Pressurized aircraft are usually maintained at around 8000 feet, plenty for sitting, smoking and drinking but will effect night vision.

​​@@jeffdo9195 yep, and many of those people are no longer with us because of it.

Smoke em if you got em. I smoked back in the day. Lol those were the days.

My dad said people used to smoke on airplanes all the time in 70s. So I think you are very wrong.

The jammed trimmed tab is not even listed in the emergency procedures checklist. It's in the abnormal procedures checklist. So I suppose that means Cessna didn't consider a jammed trim tab to be an emergency. Old school!

@@FlyWithNoam i put my airplane docs in foreflight. (PDF) .. as a backup. You can place tabs for key pages to make things easy to find. Plus you can do searches for words. Thank you for this great and honest video. Keep on uploading!

@@FlyWithNoam if you say so. But you never stopped flying the airplane under most demanding conditions and made careful considerations.

@@FlyWithNoam whi cares ? You knew the DO list by memory lol!! Is there a checklist for THAT emergency ? It could have distracted you.

@@FlyWithNoam wow! And I was only considering the attitude changes with flap and gear extensions that could have exerted more forces.

@@FlyWithNoam Exactly. First instinct is feel it. How is it behaving. He did this on a newly acquired jet and type rating from piston too! System issue or mechanical. OK it's flying OK, where to next... MANY just want that computer to fly the plane again and fixate on that, and to me for e.g. its like in the auto world where you have a racing driver can't drive stick!? @citationmax you seen this one bro?

@@FlyWithNoam I wanted to show him this!

VAPING ???? Single-pilot, IMC, Family...... ?

You needed a t-shirt from Jimmy’s world!

@@243atlpac Really,, what does vaping having anything to do with this situation? This is a very capable airplane that fly's this type of mission hundreds of times a day throughout the world. "IMC, FAMILY",,,, that's pretty much every flight that a Citation makes. Try not to be so judgmental, it's very obvious that you no nothing about flying.. I don't tell you what to do in your Prius.

@@243atlpac let’s not be judgmental, clearly this pilot is in control of the situation. Let this captain apply his skills and get the aircraft on ground safely. Vaping are you serious?

@@FlyWithNoam 👍🏼

@@FlyWithNoam I don't know how comfortable you feel flying the Citation, but my suggestion for people upgrading from single engine to multiengine or prop to jets, is to always fly with a safety pilot, until they gain the necessary experience to avoid this kind of situations, or at least it's what I suggest to all my students, on the other hand, I don't know exactly what phase of the flight you were in? but if you had not reached the point of no return, my suggestion is to return and solve the situation at the airport where you took off, since continuing you could have found more icing conditions and everything could have had a completely different ending, my advice is practice as much as you can in VMC conditions and if you want to fly in IMC conditions, do it with a safety pilot or with an instructor and as a final advice make it a routine to call out and always have a visual flow of all the instruments, if you had, you would have noticed the light on the autopilot that indicated the failure, anyway I wish you the best and continue to grow in this world as beautiful as aviation and enjoy the experience of owning your own citation to the fullest

I wanted to add something also. At around 4000 ft you turned the trim on again and it still didn't work. You probably shouldn't have done that. Fortunately it didn't change anything but cascading failures can happen. Great job handling the jet single pilot IMC icing at night!

@Noam Ben-Hamou I watched another one and realized it is higher up than where I was looking. It's been 24 years since I last worked on or flew in one. 12 yrs with CBP and 5 yrs various locations before that.

@@FlyWithNoam True.

​@@FlyWithNoam Seems as if she has every confidence in her husband's piloting ability. She is also a praying woman.

Granted there is much flying activity happening in turbine aircraft with single pilot ops, its legal , but the bigger question, is it safe ??? Legal does not always mean Safe. Two pilot crews are more inclined to work through a problem as the training is very heavy on that particular area, Aviate , Navigate, Communicate, always keep yourself away from complacency, it will kill

@@FlyWithNoam That would be a very interesting video -- someone doing a contaminated grease analysis.

@@FlyWithNoam Maintained these airplanes for 15 years straight. Checking the deice boots by inflating them was standard procedure during phase checks. I still have the fitting for hooking up shop air through a regulator(not a shop vac) so that I could inflate and check them for holes. If it isn't being done, you need a new mechanic! Changed more of those boots than I can remember. As for the grease DC 33, it is supposed to be cleaned out periodically and repacked with new grease. I did that many times on all of the actuators. At the Citation Service Center, we were required to use DC33 that was issued by Cessna under strict quality control to ensure that there was no moisture in it. By the way, you probably know this but you didn't have an autopilot failure, it just wouldn't work because of the stuck trim.

@@FlyWithNoam You can see the holes without inflating them unless they are very small. They should still inflate though. They get a large amount of air very quickly. You could run an engine and have someone look at them while you cycle them. It shouldn't matter how old the airplane is if it is maintained per the manuals.

@@kramsallisac9356 I’ve been flying single pilot most of my life. You can get buried in anything. I have a couple thousand hours in a C560. Pretty easy to fly SP This kid is a good pilot. He just proved he can handle it.

🤣🤣🤣 Me too. You did the same thing I would do with my wife..."nope, great flight. nothing wrong."

Well, she knows!

@@FlyWithNoam Thanks. Stay safe, I enjoy your videos.

@@FlyWithNoam Don't get me wrong, you did amazing! I got chills watching you.

@@FlyWithNoam no judgment. Just it affects your cabin pressure regulator unit. Just keep it clean. TZ, old Lear mechanic.

@@FlyWithNoam interesting thanks

One thing you did SO right, you kept your head, and therefore you got out of it

Why? G1000 isn't even touchscreen.