An A320 flight crew failed to advise maintenance of a failure of the automatic engine start sequence...

Attributes
ACN	853860
Time
Date	200909
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	PDX.Airport
State Reference	OR
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	A320
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Taxi
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Engine Starting System
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Flying
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 150 Flight Crew Total 12000 Flight Crew Type 5300
Person 2
Function	Pilot Flying Captain
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 205 Flight Crew Total 18634 Flight Crew Type 4685
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Maintenance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Narrative:

While taxiing single engine to 28L at pdx we had start fault on engine 2 caused by an ignition fault. We performed a manual start and departed without reporting the fault. The captain and I both recalled that a manual start could be attempted after an automatic abort without reporting it to maintenance. However we neglected to report the ignition fault as we were thinking it would be a info only report. After takeoff I looked in the normal operations section of the flight manual and found a note saying that maintenance must be contacted after a failed automatic start. It would be nice if that note were included at the end of the manual start procedure in the additional operations chapter. I don't know what I was thinking and should have made the call to maintenance control before takeoff.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An A320 flight crew failed to advise Maintenance of a failure of the automatic engine start sequence when the alternate manual procedure resulted in a normal start.

Narrative: While taxiing single engine to 28L at PDX we had start fault on engine 2 caused by an ignition fault. We performed a manual start and departed without reporting the fault. The Captain and I both recalled that a manual start could be attempted after an automatic abort without reporting it to maintenance. However we neglected to report the ignition fault as we were thinking it would be a info only report. After takeoff I looked in the normal operations section of the flight manual and found a note saying that Maintenance must be contacted after a failed automatic start. It would be nice if that note were included at the end of the manual start procedure in the additional operations chapter. I don't know what I was thinking and should have made the call to Maintenance control before takeoff.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.

An A320 flight crew failed to advise maintenance of a failure of the automatic engine start sequence when the alternate manual procedure resulted in a normal start.