B737 flight crew describes a night visual approach that becomes unstabilized when the first officer ...

Narrative:

The captain and I talked (at length) about many things coming into dal and he pointed out that we aren't supposed to fly to 13L after (time local). So I had it ingrained in my mind that we were landing on runway 13R. After being given very unusual vectors for a right downwind; tower asked if we wanted 13L or right. The captain said 13L would work better for us. We set everything up accordingly. This captain and I have flown together before and he is very vocal and full of all kinds of 'helpful hints' and other superfluous information. I was fairly fatigued from the late start of this trip; coupled with a restless night of sleep the night before. I told the captain that I had the runway in sight and I locked onto 13R. As I positioned the aircraft to line up for a visual (still way out on final) dal tower called and asked us if we wanted the right since it appeared we were lining up on it. The captain replied 'no; we will take the left.' I couldn't believe I had lined up on the wrong side since I had never done that before in my aviating career. We started side-stepping and I felt like we were getting ourselves set up for an unstable approach and we elected to go-around. After going around; tower then cleared us for the visual to runway 13R. I was beating myself up after the lining up on the wrong runway stunt and I was getting even more 'helpful hints' thrown my way. As we were on a base; the tower called out company traffic on final to us and I told the captain I had the runway and the traffic. I was still feeling distracted and quite frankly discombobulated and darned if I didn't turn and roll out to line up for runway 13L. The captain noticed (as well as tower) and we made the turn to line up and land on runway 13R. I actually gave the aircraft to the captain because I was disoriented and very aggravated at myself. The rest of the approach and landing were uneventful and tower didn't mention anything regarding the two approaches. I take full responsibility for my actions. The cockpit was very dynamic for both of the approaches; but still no excuse for either approach.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B737 flight crew describes a night visual approach that becomes unstabilized when the First Officer lines up with the wrong runway and results in a go around. On the second approach; the First Officer again lines up on the wrong runway and the Captain takes control for landing.

Narrative: The Captain and I talked (at length) about many things coming into DAL and he pointed out that we aren't supposed to fly to 13L after (time Local). So I had it ingrained in my mind that we were landing on Runway 13R. After being given very unusual vectors for a right downwind; Tower asked if we wanted 13L or R. The Captain said 13L would work better for us. We set everything up accordingly. This Captain and I have flown together before and he is VERY vocal and full of all kinds of 'helpful hints' and other superfluous information. I was fairly fatigued from the late start of this trip; coupled with a restless night of sleep the night before. I told the Captain that I had the runway in sight and I locked onto 13R. As I positioned the aircraft to line up for a visual (still way out on final) DAL Tower called and asked us if we wanted the right since it appeared we were lining up on it. The Captain replied 'No; we will take the left.' I couldn't believe I had lined up on the wrong side since I had never done that before in my aviating career. We started side-stepping and I felt like we were getting ourselves set up for an unstable approach and we elected to go-around. After going around; Tower then cleared us for the Visual to Runway 13R. I was beating myself up after the lining up on the wrong runway stunt and I was getting even more 'helpful hints' thrown my way. As we were on a base; the Tower called out Company traffic on final to us and I told the Captain I had the runway and the traffic. I was still feeling distracted and quite frankly discombobulated and darned if I didn't turn and roll out to line up for Runway 13L. The Captain noticed (as well as Tower) and we made the turn to line up and land on Runway 13R. I actually gave the aircraft to the Captain because I was disoriented and very aggravated at myself. The rest of the approach and landing were uneventful and Tower didn't mention anything regarding the two approaches. I take full responsibility for my actions. The cockpit was very dynamic for both of the approaches; but still no excuse for either approach.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site 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	1248880
Time
Date	201503
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	DAL.Tower
State Reference	TX
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B737-700
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 146
Person 2
Function	Pilot Not Flying Captain
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 192
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Track / Heading All Types Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach

B737 flight crew describes a night visual approach that becomes unstabilized when the first officer lines up with the wrong runway and results in a go around. On the second approach; the first officer again lines up on the wrong runway and the captain takes control for landing.