The flight crew of a citation 650 failed to set the local altimeter setting on descent to phx and; c...

Attributes
ACN	1041892
Time
Date	201210
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	PHX.Airport
State Reference	AZ
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Citation III VI VII (C650)
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Descent
Route In Use	STAR MAIER FIVE
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Altimeter
Person 1
Function	Pilot Not Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 55 Flight Crew Total 30000 Flight Crew Type 1200
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Deviation - Altitude Overshoot Deviation - Altitude Crossing Restriction Not Met Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Procedural Clearance Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

Narrative:

Arriving from (a high altitude airport with a high altimeter setting) into phx (a low altitude airport with a low altimeter setting) both pilots failed to reset our altimeters to the phx local setting causing us to cross some of the arrival fixes at lower than published altitudes. ATC advised of the lower than normal altitudes and we realized what we had done and reset out altimeters. There was no conflict with any other aircraft and ATC stated that there was no problem on their end. In turbine aircraft we reset our altimeters descending below FL180 when arriving into an airport; but since this was a short flight we never climbed that high and this got us out of our normal sequence and we missed the altitude check. We will devise a system to recheck altimeters at lower level flights in the future.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: The flight crew of a Citation 650 failed to set the local altimeter setting on descent to PHX and; consequently; crossed some fixes on their arrival below the charted altitude.

Narrative: Arriving from (a high altitude airport with a high altimeter setting) into PHX (a low altitude airport with a low altimeter setting) both pilots failed to reset our altimeters to the PHX local setting causing us to cross some of the arrival fixes at lower than published altitudes. ATC advised of the lower than normal altitudes and we realized what we had done and reset out altimeters. There was no conflict with any other aircraft and ATC stated that there was no problem on their end. In turbine aircraft we reset our altimeters descending below FL180 when arriving into an airport; but since this was a short flight we never climbed that high and this got us out of our normal sequence and we missed the altitude check. We will devise a system to recheck altimeters at lower level flights in the future.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 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.

The flight crew of a citation 650 failed to set the local altimeter setting on descent to phx and; consequently; crossed some fixes on their arrival below the charted altitude.