Narrative:

We were climbing out on the teb 8 departure from runway 24. We were supposed to level at 1;500 until 4.5 DME from teb. I was the pilot not flying. We had briefed the departure and I had the text on my knee board. I called out 500 ft for 1;500 ft. While I was contacting approach the pilot flying started the turn to a 280 heading but did not level off. By the time I could take control we had already reached 1;800 ft. The altitude alerter was set at 1;500 ft. For some reason the pilot flying thought she could continue the climb to 2;000 ft once we started the turn. The approach controller did not acknowledge the deviation and asked us to climb to 4;000 ft. It was just a mental error on the pilot flying because we had discussed in detail that I would let her know when we passed 4.5 DME and I would change the alerter to 2;000 ft and we could continue the climb.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An EA50 flight crew deviated from the TEB departure by climbing through the 1;500 FT restriction. First Officer was not clear on the procedure.

Narrative: We were climbing out on the TEB 8 departure from Runway 24. We were supposed to level at 1;500 until 4.5 DME from TEB. I was the pilot not flying. We had briefed the departure and I had the text on my knee board. I called out 500 FT for 1;500 FT. While I was contacting Approach the pilot flying started the turn to a 280 heading but did not level off. By the time I could take control we had already reached 1;800 FT. The altitude alerter was set at 1;500 FT. For some reason the pilot flying thought she could continue the climb to 2;000 FT once we started the turn. The Approach Controller did not acknowledge the deviation and asked us to climb to 4;000 FT. It was just a mental error on the pilot flying because we had discussed in detail that I would let her know when we passed 4.5 DME and I would change the alerter to 2;000 FT and we could continue the climb.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 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.