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A C90 instructor pilot comments that his foreign student pilots with commerical certificates and both multi-engine and instrument ratings cannot be left alone. A student descended beyond the 10;000 ft clearance while the reporter was obtaining landing ATIS.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 869508 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201001 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | King Air C90 E90 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Cruise |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain Pilot Not Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Flight Engineer Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Multiengine |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 180 Flight Crew Total 28000 Flight Crew Type 500 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Altitude Excursion From Assigned Altitude Deviation - Procedural Clearance |
Narrative:
I was instructing foreign students who have commercial; multi-engine and instrument licenses in the operation of a king air. The student was flying and ATC instructed us to descend to 10;000 ft. I went off air to get the ATIS for landing. When I returned to ATC on my headset; I realized the student had descended to 9000 ft. ATC asked us about our altitude and simply cleared us to 8;000 ft. No conflicts occurred. The issue here is that as an instructor of these students; I cannot trust them to do anything on their own and the language barrier is very difficult. Many things occur and sometimes I think they should not even have a pilots license.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A C90 Instructor Pilot comments that his foreign student pilots with commerical certificates and both multi-engine and instrument ratings cannot be left alone. A student descended beyond the 10;000 FT clearance while the reporter was obtaining landing ATIS.
Narrative: I was instructing foreign students who have Commercial; Multi-engine and Instrument Licenses in the operation of a King Air. The student was flying and ATC instructed us to descend to 10;000 FT. I went off air to get the ATIS for landing. When I returned to ATC on my headset; I realized the student had descended to 9000 FT. ATC asked us about our altitude and simply cleared us to 8;000 FT. No conflicts occurred. The issue here is that as an instructor of these students; I cannot trust them to do anything on their own and the language barrier is very difficult. Many things occur and sometimes I think they should not even have a pilots license.
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.