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A319 flight crew reported a minor altitude deviation resulted when the autothrottles were unresponsive during a level-off on a visual approach.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1391653 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201609 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1801-2400 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | A319 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Final Approach |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain Pilot Not Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Person 2 | |
| Function | Pilot Flying First Officer |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Altitude Excursion From Assigned Altitude Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach |
Narrative:
While on vectors for visual approach we were cleared to 3000 feet and on a heading to join the localizer. The heading was going to have us joining above the glide slope. The first officer (first officer) was pilot flying. He increased the descent rate to join the glide slope. The airplane did not capture the GS; so [the first officer] disconnected the ap to level off and recapture. The auto throttles were not responsive; forcing him to trade a small amount of altitude for speed until we could get the throttles to respond. We selected speed in the speed window and that solved the problem. We did get below the GS; but re-intercepted and landed uneventfully. Looking back; I probably would have done a go around; but it happened very quickly and was resolved with corrective action very quickly.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A319 flight crew reported a minor altitude deviation resulted when the autothrottles were unresponsive during a level-off on a visual approach.
Narrative: While on vectors for visual approach we were cleared to 3000 feet and on a heading to join the localizer. The heading was going to have us joining above the glide slope. The First Officer (FO) was pilot flying. He increased the descent rate to join the glide slope. The airplane did not capture the GS; so [the FO] disconnected the AP to level off and recapture. The auto throttles were not responsive; forcing him to trade a small amount of altitude for speed until we could get the throttles to respond. We selected speed in the speed window and that solved the problem. We did get below the GS; but re-intercepted and landed uneventfully. Looking back; I probably would have done a go around; but it happened very quickly and was resolved with corrective action very quickly.
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.