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Attributes | |
ACN | 1274419 |
Time | |
Date | 201506 |
Local Time Of Day | 0001-0600 |
Place | |
Locale Reference | ZZZZ.ARTCC |
State Reference | FO |
Environment | |
Flight Conditions | VMC |
Light | Night |
Aircraft 1 | |
Make Model Name | B767-300 and 300 ER |
Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
Flight Phase | Cruise |
Flight Plan | IFR |
Person 1 | |
Function | First Officer Pilot Not Flying |
Events | |
Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Track / Heading All Types |
Narrative:
[ATC] had given us a clearance to fly 6 miles right of track. As pilot monitoring (pm); I read back the clearance and entered the offset into the FMC. The captain; pilot flying (PF) selected heading sel and turned toward the offset route. He had been done this on each of his legs before (and I sometimes do the same) so I saw nothing amiss. The captain had his hands on the yoke so I went back to my ipad that I had open to study since I had recurrent training soon. I was not monitoring the intercept. I did not notice that the captain never selected LNAV. In the dark cockpit I did not notice the captains head droop slightly. When [ATC] queried us as to our course/offset; I noticed the captain's head come up and saw that we were well past our six mile offset. I pulled up the progress page and saw that we were nine miles farther right than cleared. The captain had already begun a change of course back to our cleared offset. The controllers only comment was that we were headed out of his sector. I lost sight of my duties as pm when the captain kept his hands on the yoke for the intercept. While on autopilot; I had not witnessed him keeping his hands on the yoke before. I also did not notice that he nodded off during the minute it took to offset those six miles. It took a matter of reading one page to miss the actions that should have been occurring. In light of this error; I will have to be cognizant of where my attention is drawn. There is no reason to pay attention to other; non-flight things when a change is occurring over such a short time span. Also; pm duties include everything associated with the flight; the other pilot included.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: B767-300 First Officer; the pilot monitoring; reported a track deviation when the pilot flying failed to select LNAV during an offset maneuver. Fatigue was cited as a contributing factor.
Narrative: [ATC] had given us a clearance to fly 6 miles right of track. As Pilot Monitoring (PM); I read back the clearance and entered the offset into the FMC. The Captain; Pilot Flying (PF) selected HDG SEL and turned toward the offset route. He had been done this on each of his legs before (and I sometimes do the same) so I saw nothing amiss. The Captain had his hands on the yoke so I went back to my iPad that I had open to study since I had recurrent training soon. I was not monitoring the intercept. I did not notice that the Captain never selected LNAV. In the dark cockpit I did not notice the Captains head droop slightly. When [ATC] queried us as to our course/offset; I noticed the Captain's head come up and saw that we were well past our six mile offset. I pulled up the PROGRESS page and saw that we were nine miles farther right than cleared. The Captain had already begun a change of course back to our cleared offset. The Controllers only comment was that we were headed out of his sector. I lost sight of my duties as PM when the Captain kept his hands on the yoke for the intercept. While on autopilot; I had not witnessed him keeping his hands on the yoke before. I also did not notice that he nodded off during the minute it took to offset those six miles. It took a matter of reading one page to miss the actions that should have been occurring. In light of this error; I will have to be cognizant of where my attention is drawn. There is no reason to pay attention to other; non-flight things when a change is occurring over such a short time span. Also; PM duties include everything associated with the flight; the other pilot included.
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.