A crj-200 captain reported repeated incidents of finding aircraft prepped by ground crews for first ...

Narrative:

Found aircraft depowered since the night before with only 1 set of chocks on the nose gear. There was no hydraulic pressure applied and the parking brake message was no longer posted. The aircraft was parked faced down hill. This situation occurs regularly where they pull overnight triple chocks prior to aircraft being powered up. It is not uncommon to find a set of nose gear chocks pushed out of the way as the airplane starts to creep forward down the hill. With the equipment often already placed around the aircraft the aircraft could strike it if it begins to roll too far.get the ground handling manual modified to change procedures to not remove triple chocks until power is established on the aircraft and hydraulic pressure is restored to ensure the parking brake is actively holding the aircraft in position.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A CRJ-200 Captain reported repeated incidents of finding aircraft prepped by ground crews for first flights of the day not being properly chocked prior to hydraulic pressure being applied to the brakes.

Narrative: Found aircraft depowered since the night before with only 1 set of chocks on the nose gear. There was no HYD pressure applied and the Parking Brake message was no longer posted. The aircraft was parked faced down hill. This situation occurs regularly where they pull overnight triple chocks prior to aircraft being powered up. It is not uncommon to find a set of nose gear chocks pushed out of the way as the airplane starts to creep forward down the hill. With the equipment often already placed around the aircraft the aircraft could strike it if it begins to roll too far.Get the ground handling manual modified to change procedures to not remove triple chocks until power is established on the aircraft and HYD pressure is restored to ensure the Parking Brake is actively holding the aircraft in position.

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.

Attributes
ACN	1102955
Time
Date	201307
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	DCA.Airport
State Reference	DC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Regional Jet 200 ER/LR (CRJ200)
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Parking Brake
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Other Unwanted situation

A crj-200 captain reported repeated incidents of finding aircraft prepped by ground crews for first flights of the day not being properly chocked prior to hydraulic pressure being applied to the brakes.