On climbout an A300 flight crew failed to level at their cleared altitude when the pilot flying mome...

Attributes
ACN	920371
Time
Date	201011
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	EWR.Airport
State Reference	NJ
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	A300
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Takeoff
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	PFD
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying First Officer
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 75 Flight Crew Total 19450 Flight Crew Type 225
Person 2
Function	Pilot Not Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 82 Flight Crew Total 11922 Flight Crew Type 909
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Altitude Overshoot Deviation - Procedural Clearance

Narrative:

After departing ewr we were assigned to climb to 11;000 ft after contacting departure control. I was manually flying the aircraft at the time. Departure cleared us direct to a waypoint that was not in our filed route of flight. We were also given a frequency change at the same time. As we were climbing through 9;500 ft the nd/pfd on my side blinked off then back on. This distraction; along with the newly assigned routing caused me to overshoot our assigned altitude by 500 ft. As I started to descend back to 11;000 we were then cleared to climb to FL230. After reaching cruise altitude we briefly discussed the issue and then again after landing in a crew room. It was agreed that in a busy terminal area we should utilize automation to maintain lateral and vertical flight.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: On climbout an A300 Flight Crew failed to level at their cleared altitude when the pilot flying momentarily lost his NAV displays and the pilot not flying was heads down correcting a CDU nav entry error.

Narrative: After departing EWR we were assigned to climb to 11;000 FT after contacting Departure Control. I was manually flying the aircraft at the time. Departure cleared us direct to a waypoint that was not in our filed route of flight. We were also given a frequency change at the same time. As we were climbing through 9;500 FT the ND/PFD on my side blinked off then back on. This distraction; along with the newly assigned routing caused me to overshoot our assigned altitude by 500 FT. As I started to descend back to 11;000 we were then cleared to climb to FL230. After reaching cruise altitude we briefly discussed the issue and then again after landing in a crew room. It was agreed that in a busy terminal area we should utilize automation to maintain lateral and vertical flight.

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.

On climbout an A300 flight crew failed to level at their cleared altitude when the pilot flying momentarily lost his navigation displays and the pilot not flying was heads down correcting a CDU nav entry error.