A320 flight crew reports missing a crossing restriction during the hyper arrival to iad then having ...

Narrative:

On the descent into iad; we were cleared to descend via the hyper arrival. Approaching mowat; we were still at 7000 feet and should have been descending to 5000 as published. We told the controller that we probably could not make that. He replied; 'no problem; just give me your best rate down'; which we did. This was my error and mine alone. Some extenuating circumstances that contributed to the distraction were: 1. Winds were out of the west at 30g36 2. Approach was to be ILS 1R circle to land runway 30 3. I had actually picked up this trip because I was feeling 'non-current' and was to be only my third approach of the month. (Had even tried to pick up trips over thanksgiving; but was unsuccessful). I was trying to focus on the winds and circling; but should not have let that impact flying the arrival. No excuses; I still should have started down sooner. During the approach; we had originally planned flaps 3 and a 1R landing due to the high crosswinds. When that was changed to runway 30; I decided to go back to flaps full. I did keep the flaps at 3 for much of the circle and did not call for flaps full until approaching 500 feet (weather was clear below 5000 feet so visual conditions applied). I leveled off to ensure they would be down and locked before 500; but may have momentarily dipped below; so I cannot say for sure. I can say that considering the high winds; the circling approach; and that we were on speed and on profile within seconds of 500 feet; I felt landing was the appropriate thing to do.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A320 Flight Crew Reports missing a crossing restriction during the HYPER arrival to IAD then having an unstabilized approach during a circle to land Runway 30 from the ILS 1R.

Narrative: On the descent into IAD; we were cleared to descend via the HYPER arrival. Approaching MOWAT; we were still at 7000 feet and should have been descending to 5000 as published. We told the controller that we probably could not make that. He replied; 'No problem; just give me your best rate down'; which we did. This was my error and mine alone. Some extenuating circumstances that contributed to the distraction were: 1. Winds were out of the west at 30G36 2. Approach was to be ILS 1R circle to land Runway 30 3. I had actually picked up this trip because I was feeling 'non-current' and was to be only my third approach of the month. (Had even tried to pick up trips over Thanksgiving; but was unsuccessful). I was trying to focus on the winds and circling; but should not have let that impact flying the arrival. No excuses; I still should have started down sooner. During the approach; we had originally planned flaps 3 and a 1R landing due to the high crosswinds. When that was changed to Runway 30; I decided to go back to flaps full. I did keep the flaps at 3 for much of the circle and did not call for flaps full until approaching 500 feet (weather was clear below 5000 feet so visual conditions applied). I leveled off to ensure they would be down and locked before 500; but may have momentarily dipped below; so I cannot say for sure. I can say that considering the high winds; the circling approach; and that we were on speed and on profile within seconds of 500 feet; I felt landing was the appropriate thing to do.

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.

Attributes
ACN	861883
Time
Date	200911
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	IAD.Airport
State Reference	DC
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	A320
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Final Approach Initial Approach
Route In Use	STAR HYPER
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Captain
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 80 Flight Crew Total 14000 Flight Crew Type 2000
Person 2
Function	Pilot Not Flying First Officer
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 125 Flight Crew Total 8500 Flight Crew Type 1218
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Altitude Crossing Restriction Not Met Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach

A320 flight crew reports missing a crossing restriction during the hyper arrival to iad then having an unstabilized approach during a circle to land runway 30 from the ILS 1R.