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An A320 captain executed an IMC go-around in response to an egpws terrain warning after he developed a high sink rate to capture the ILS glideslope from above.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1195963 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201408 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | FO |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | IMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | A320 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Final Approach |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain Pilot Flying |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 255 Flight Crew Total 14000 Flight Crew Type 3000 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence |
Narrative:
We got high on the slide slope and started a descent to recapture it and had a high sink rate which gave us terrain warning. At that point we did a go-around and got vectors to another approach to a landing.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: An A320 Captain executed an IMC go-around in response to an EGPWS TERRAIN warning after he developed a high sink rate to capture the ILS glideslope from above.
Narrative: We got high on the slide slope and started a descent to recapture it and had a high sink rate which gave us TERRAIN WARNING. At that point we did a go-around and got vectors to another approach to a landing.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site 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.