Crj first officer reported losing sight of the river during a river visual 19 at dca. The captain as...

Attributes
ACN	1458168
Time
Date	201706
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	DCA.Airport
State Reference	DC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Regional Jet CL65 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Speedbrake/Spoiler
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach

Narrative:

We were being vectored around because of an overload in traffic due to storms. I had the spoilers out due to ATC instructions for altitude and speed. After being cleared for the river visual 19 approach we encountered a scud layer at 1800 feet. I advised pilot monitoring (pm) that I lost visual of the river. We had the lda Z 19 loaded in the FMS and localizer was captured. We were descending and the pm asked that I go to white needles to load the visual. When I went to white needles I lost situational awareness and advised the pm. Pm grabbed the controls and executed a go around. We received three stick shaker events before we were established on the go around. The call for set max thrust and check spoilers was never made. After we climbed 3000 feet pm stowed the spoilers. We went back around and pm landed the plane.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: CRJ First Officer reported losing sight of the river during a River Visual 19 at DCA. The Captain assumed control of the aircraft to go around and did not notice that the spoilers were extended causing three stick shaker events before leveling at 3000 feet.

Narrative: We were being vectored around because of an overload in traffic due to storms. I had the spoilers out due to ATC instructions for altitude and speed. After being cleared for the River visual 19 approach we encountered a scud layer at 1800 feet. I advised Pilot Monitoring (PM) that I lost visual of the river. We had the LDA Z 19 loaded in the FMS and LOC was captured. We were descending and the PM asked that I go to white needles to load the visual. When I went to white needles I lost situational awareness and advised the PM. PM grabbed the controls and executed a go around. We received three stick shaker events before we were established on the go around. The call for set max thrust and check spoilers was never made. After we climbed 3000 feet PM stowed the spoilers. We went back around and PM landed the plane.

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.

Crj first officer reported losing sight of the river during a river visual 19 at dca. The captain assumed control of the aircraft to go around and did not notice that the spoilers were extended causing three stick shaker events before leveling at 3000 feet.