 |
37000 Feet | Browse and search NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System |
|
Three pilots in the two different aircraft involved and a controller describe a loss of separation event as one aircraft is arriving gso and the other is departing; with both assigned 6;000 ft. Both aircraft make evasive turns and both flying pilots choose to disregard their respective TCAS RA's due to visual acquisition.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 920618 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201011 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0001-0600 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | GSO.Airport |
| State Reference | NC |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Regional Jet CL65 Undifferentiated or Other Model |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Climb |
| Route In Use | SID TRIAD 6 |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Aircraft 2 | |
| Make Model Name | Regional Jet 200 ER/LR (CRJ200) |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Descent |
| Route In Use | Vectors |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Approach Departure |
| Qualification | Air Traffic Control Fully Certified |
| Person 2 | |
| Function | Pilot Flying First Officer |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Commercial |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | ATC Issue All Types Conflict Airborne Conflict Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy |
Narrative:
Aircraft Y was a gso arrival assigned and descending to 070. Aircraft X was a departure initially stopped at 060 for aircraft Y. I was scanning and setting up my arrival sequence to the final radar position and wanted to get aircraft Y down to 060 under another arrival that needed to descend to 070. I prematurely started the decent for aircraft Y forgetting that I had climbed aircraft X to 060. Bottom line; clearly an oversight on my part. A procedural item that would help this situation is giving radar control for departures again so that the confliction could have been avoided on initial contact. Our new procedures cause us to double the number of nearly every aircraft departure transmissions and keep more departing aircraft lower and vectored further away from on course than necessary. This procedure has been mentioned many times to upper management but they refuse to consider any other input but their own.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Three pilots in the two different aircraft involved and a controller describe a loss of separation event as one aircraft is arriving GSO and the other is departing; with both assigned 6;000 FT. Both aircraft make evasive turns and both flying pilots choose to disregard their respective TCAS RA's due to visual acquisition.
Narrative: Aircraft Y was a GSO arrival assigned and descending to 070. Aircraft X was a departure initially stopped at 060 for Aircraft Y. I was scanning and setting up my arrival sequence to the Final Radar position and wanted to get Aircraft Y down to 060 under another arrival that needed to descend to 070. I prematurely started the decent for Aircraft Y forgetting that I had climbed Aircraft X to 060. Bottom line; clearly an oversight on my part. A procedural item that would help this situation is giving radar control for departures again so that the confliction could have been avoided on initial contact. Our new procedures cause us to double the number of nearly every aircraft departure transmissions and keep more departing aircraft lower and vectored further away from on course than necessary. This procedure has been mentioned many times to upper management but they refuse to consider any other input but their own.
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.