ZBW controller described a wrong altitude transfer of information to an adjacent sector noting a pos...

Narrative:

I was training a developmental. Aircraft X was climbed to 17;000 ft and handed off to ZNY sector 51. Sector 51 called after communications transfer and said they showed 14;000 ft for his final. We showed FL380 for his final. Later in the shift I did a sprint and saw that the trainee entered 14;000 ft hard; then FL380. I then went through the strips and found a utm message on the altitude change. I was briefed late that there is a problem with too many utms and its effects on hand offs. They changed the time it prints from 5 minutes down to 2. There was no yellow 'U' in uret; indicting a utm. I believe this may be due to the band aid they put in place for the utm. The host should be fixed so that if you get a utm you can't do an automated hand off.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: ZBW Controller described a wrong altitude transfer of information to an adjacent sector noting a post review of the event revealed HOST vs. URET anomalies.

Narrative: I was training a developmental. Aircraft X was climbed to 17;000 FT and handed off to ZNY Sector 51. Sector 51 called after communications transfer and said they showed 14;000 FT for his final. We showed FL380 for his final. Later in the shift I did a sprint and saw that the trainee entered 14;000 FT hard; then FL380. I then went through the strips and found a UTM message on the altitude change. I was briefed late that there is a problem with too many UTMs and its effects on hand offs. They changed the time it prints from 5 minutes down to 2. There was no yellow 'U' in URET; indicting a UTM. I believe this may be due to the band aid they put in place for the UTM. The host should be fixed so that if you get a UTM you can't do an automated hand off.

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	950348
Time
Date	201105
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ZBW.ARTCC
State Reference	NH
Environment
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Challenger CL600
Flight Phase	Climb
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Instructor
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

ZBW controller described a wrong altitude transfer of information to an adjacent sector noting a post review of the event revealed host vs. Uret anomalies.