DHC8-200 captain reports stopping his aircraft during marshalling into the gate after sensing that h...

Narrative:

While parking this morning; the marshaller did not make any motion for us to slow or stop at the appropriate line. He was still signaling for us to taxi forward normally. Being aware that there was a small gpu (the kind that runs off electricity from the building) was in place approximately where the 'emb-170' line is and not visible to my first officer by this point; I stopped to get things sorted out. As I was stopping I saw another ramper who I had not seen initially beside the gpu; motioning for the marshaller to signal for me to stop. I made eye contact with this ramper; and he signaled for me to set the parking brake. The marshaller later said that he had been focused on the '200' of the 'crj-200' line instead of the 'Q200' line.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: DHC8-200 Captain reports stopping his aircraft during marshalling into the gate after sensing that he was passed the normal stop point. The Marshall had been looking at the CRJ200 line instead of the Q200 line.

Narrative: While parking this morning; the Marshaller did not make any motion for us to slow or stop at the appropriate line. He was still signaling for us to taxi forward normally. Being aware that there was a small GPU (the kind that runs off electricity from the building) was in place approximately where the 'EMB-170' line is and not visible to my First Officer by this point; I stopped to get things sorted out. As I was stopping I saw another Ramper who I had not seen initially beside the GPU; motioning for the Marshaller to signal for me to stop. I made eye contact with this Ramper; and he signaled for me to set the parking brake. The Marshaller later said that he had been focused on the '200' of the 'CRJ-200' line instead of the 'Q200' line.

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	1109107
Time
Date	201308
Local Time Of Day	0001-0600
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Dash 8-200
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Taxi
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown

DHC8-200 captain reports stopping his aircraft during marshalling into the gate after sensing that he was passed the normal stop point. The marshall had been looking at the CRJ200 line instead of the Q200 line.