CANADAIR REGIONAL JET CL65 OVERSHOT MISSED APCH ASSIGNED ALT DUE TO CLBING THROUGH A HIGHER ALT AT THE TIME OF ATC ALT ASSIGNMENT AND PLT'S DELAY IN ARRESTING CLB.

Date: 1999-01

Anomalies: deviation-altitude-overshoot|deviation-discrepancy-procedural-published-material-policy

Synopsis

CANADAIR REGIONAL JET CL65 OVERSHOT MISSED APCH ASSIGNED ALT DUE TO CLBING THROUGH A HIGHER ALT AT THE TIME OF ATC ALT ASSIGNMENT AND PLT'S DELAY IN ARRESTING CLB.

Narrative

IT WAS THE LAST LEG OF A 13 HR DUTY DAY. WE WERE DOING A CHARTER FLT INTO SYR. IT WAS VERY LATE AT NIGHT. WE WOULD BE SHOOTING THE ILS RWY 28 AT SYR. I PLANNED OUR DSCNT POORLY AND HAD TO INCREASE OUR RATE IN AN ATTEMPT TO GET DOWN TO THE INITIAL ALT FOR THE APCH. UPON BEING CLRED FOR THE APCH; WE CAPTURED THE LOC AND CONTINUED TO DSND TO INTERCEPT THE GS. THE ACFT WAS CONFIGURED AND THE APPROPRIATE CHKLISTS WERE COMPLETED. HOWEVER; AS WE APCHED THE OM; IT BECAME EVIDENT THAT WE WOULD NOT BE ESTABLISHED ON THE GS. THEREFORE; WE DEEMED IT NECESSARY TO EXECUTE A MISSED APCH. WE FOLLOWED THE NORMAL MISSED APCH PROCS. THE PUBLISHED MISSED APCH ALT IS 3000 FT MSL. ONCE CONFIGURED AND CLBING; WE NOTIFIED THE TWR. THE TWR DIRECTED US TO MAINTAIN 2000 FT AND GAVE US A VECTOR. AT THIS POINT WE WERE ALREADY CLBING THROUGH APPROX 2700 FT. DURING THE HDG CHANGE AND THE ALT CHANGE; I DID A POOR JOB OF ARRESTING OUR ASCENT. WE REACHED AN ALT OF APPROX 3200-3300 FT MOMENTARILY BEFORE DSNDING BACK TO OUR NEWLY ASSIGNED ALT OF 2000 FT. WE THEN EXECUTED ANOTHER APCH UNEVENTFULLY. MY ALTDEV ON THE MISSED APCH WAS THE END RESULT OF POOR APCH PLANNING AND A SOMEWHAT POORLY EXECUTED MISSED APCH PROC. I BELIEVE THAT MY SOMEWHAT LOW LEVEL OF EXPERIENCE IN THE ACFT; COMBINED WITH FATIGUE WAS THE PRIMARY CONTRIBUTING FACTOR. I LEARNED THAT PROPER PLANNING AND PROPER PROCS ARE NEVER MORE IMPORTANT THAN ON THE LAST LEG OF A LONG DAY.

Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.