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Crj-200 flight crew reported not being aware of the precision runway monitor in use because it was not advertised on ATIS.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1471766 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201708 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.TRACON |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | IMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Regional Jet 200 ER/LR (CRJ200) |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Initial Approach |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain Pilot Not Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Person 2 | |
| Function | Pilot Flying First Officer |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | ATC Issue All Types Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Track / Heading All Types Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence |
Narrative:
As we began to get vectors off the arrival due to weather; approach control assigned us a different runway than we had brief and expected. The new approach was the ILS prm (precision runway monitor) runway xxl into ZZZ. Seconds after the runway change we were assigned direct zzzzz and cleared for the approach. This gave us no time to brief the new approach and due to that we forgot to put in the monitor frequency. We continued on the approach. During the approach the first officer had trouble switching from white needles to green needles. This caused us to deviate from the localizer. The captain realized the mistake shortly after and made the first officer correct before we were 1 dot off the localizer so we continue the approach and landed safelythe cause of this was lack of briefing a possible prm approach. We had brief both runways but we were not aware that prm's were in use due to the fact they were not advertised on the ATIS. The slight deviation on the localizer was due to task saturation on the first officer's part. [ATC] should start advertising prm approaches when they are actually using them. As pilots we should recognize the threat that ZZZ sometimes is using prm approaches even though they are not advertised.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: CRJ-200 flight crew reported not being aware of the Precision Runway Monitor in use because it was not advertised on ATIS.
Narrative: As we began to get vectors off the arrival due to weather; approach control assigned us a different runway than we had brief and expected. The new approach was the ILS PRM (Precision Runway Monitor) Runway XXL into ZZZ. Seconds after the runway change we were assigned direct ZZZZZ and cleared for the approach. This gave us no time to brief the new approach and due to that we forgot to put in the monitor frequency. We continued on the approach. During the approach the first officer had trouble switching from white needles to green needles. This caused us to deviate from the localizer. The captain realized the mistake shortly after and made the first officer correct before we were 1 dot off the localizer so we continue the approach and landed safelyThe cause of this was lack of briefing a possible PRM approach. We had brief both runways but we were not aware that PRM's were in use due to the fact they were not advertised on the ATIS. The slight deviation on the localizer was due to task saturation on the first officer's part. [ATC] should start advertising PRM approaches when they are actually using them. As pilots we should recognize the threat that ZZZ sometimes is using PRM approaches even though they are not advertised.
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.