Narrative:

Passing through approximately 12;000 ft we began to get a series of ECAM warnings. The warnings were coming so fast we couldn't catch all of them. The first one we saw was AC 2. At this time the first officer lost his pfd and nd. We also lost the lower ECAM. Two other ECAM's we had were associated with the rudder trim. One was rudder trim limiter and I think the other one was rudder travel. We reset the generator as per the ECAM and then facility 2; both reset. The only thing we had at this time was fuel used indications were both xx. These never returned to normal indications. After we finished this and talked to the flight attendant I mentioned to the first officer that this sounded just like the new operations bulletin. I printed out a copy and read through the items. We had all of the indications on the bulletin with the exception of the unwanted rudder trim inputs; although we did have the rudder trim ECAM's. The bulletin referred us to fom (flight operations manual) and we got that out and read it. The first officer noticed that a the bottom of the page it stated disconnect the generator. So we started the APU and once it was online disconnected gen 2. We also noticed that there was a specific maintenance code; so we sent this in but it references the idg portion of the bulletin and not the gen. This should be noted on the page and maybe a separate code for the gen portion of this situation. The other issue that we encountered was during taxi in. We were pulling up the gate and probably 20-30 ft from the parking spot when we lost NWS (nose wheel steering). I set the parking brake and got the agent to plug in. I told him about the steering and that he would have to hook up and pull us the rest of way in. While the mechanics were trouble shooting he mentioned that they also had a memo from airbus on this situation. He said that the NWS loss is all part of the same issue and he was surprised we made it as far as we did without losing the steering. If this is true we should be adding that note to the bulletin so that pilots are aware that they may lose steering.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A320 Captain experiences a generator 2 electrical malfunction that allows AC bus 2 to become unpowered. The generator is successfully reset; however a company bulletin advises that the APU should be started and the generator disconnected which is accomplished. Upon arriving at the gate NWS fails.

Narrative: Passing through approximately 12;000 FT we began to get a series of ECAM warnings. The warnings were coming so fast we couldn't catch all of them. The first one we saw was AC 2. At this time the First Officer lost his PFD and ND. We also lost the lower ECAM. Two other ECAM's we had were associated with the rudder trim. One was Rudder Trim Limiter and I think the other one was Rudder Travel. We reset the generator as per the ECAM and then FAC 2; both reset. The only thing we had at this time was fuel used indications were both XX. These never returned to normal indications. After we finished this and talked to the Flight Attendant I mentioned to the First Officer that this sounded just like the new operations bulletin. I printed out a copy and read through the items. We had all of the indications on the bulletin with the exception of the unwanted rudder trim inputs; although we did have the rudder trim ECAM's. The bulletin referred us to FOM (Flight Operations Manual) and we got that out and read it. The First Officer noticed that a the bottom of the page it stated disconnect the generator. So we started the APU and once it was online disconnected GEN 2. We also noticed that there was a specific maintenance code; so we sent this in but it references the IDG portion of the bulletin and not the GEN. This should be noted on the page and maybe a separate code for the GEN portion of this situation. The other issue that we encountered was during taxi in. We were pulling up the gate and probably 20-30 FT from the parking spot when we lost NWS (Nose Wheel Steering). I set the parking brake and got the agent to plug in. I told him about the steering and that he would have to hook up and pull us the rest of way in. While the mechanics were trouble shooting he mentioned that they also had a memo from Airbus on this situation. He said that the NWS loss is all part of the same issue and he was surprised we made it as far as we did without losing the steering. If this is true we should be adding that note to the bulletin so that pilots are aware that they may lose steering.

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.