A320 first officer experiences a TCAS RA at 11;000 ft with VFR traffic 500 ft below. The traffic was...

Narrative:

On arrival over awdad intersection level at 11;000 with autopilot on; advised of VFR traffic at 10;500 at 1 o'clock position. About 5 seconds later traffic popped up on TCAS as a TA. Aircraft began left turn over awdad and then we received a climb RA. I turned off autopilot and began climb while leaving airplane in the turn. Captain reported RA climb. We climbed to about 11;400 and got clear of conflict. I never saw him visually and last I saw on TCAS was traffic -400. We returned to 11;000 and resumed the arrival.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A320 First Officer experiences a TCAS RA at 11;000 FT with VFR traffic 500 FT below. The traffic was reported by ATC and the crew was clear of conflict at 11;400 FT.

Narrative: On arrival over AWDAD Intersection level at 11;000 with autopilot on; advised of VFR traffic at 10;500 at 1 o'clock position. About 5 seconds later traffic popped up on TCAS as a TA. Aircraft began left turn over AWDAD and then we received a climb RA. I turned off autopilot and began climb while leaving airplane in the turn. Captain reported RA climb. We climbed to about 11;400 and got clear of conflict. I never saw him visually and last I saw on TCAS was traffic -400. We returned to 11;000 and resumed the arrival.

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.

Attributes
ACN	1006682
Time
Date	201204
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	MSY.Airport
State Reference	LA
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	A320
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Flying
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 140 Flight Crew Total 13000 Flight Crew Type 2500
Events
Anomaly	Conflict Airborne Conflict Deviation - Altitude Excursion From Assigned Altitude

A320 first officer experiences a TCAS RA at 11;000 ft with VFR traffic 500 ft below. The traffic was reported by ATC and the crew was clear of conflict at 11;400 ft.