Narrative:

Aircraft X departed aoh. Cmh tower couldn't hand him off to me and called for a manual handoff; which we accepted. I tried to take the track several different ways but couldn't. I climbed him to FL220 and had the d-side coordinate that with the next sector (who it was flashing at). ZAU called and said the aircraft was now at FL230 and they weren't talking to him. I reached out on the frequency and he did say he was at FL230. I switched him to ZAU. No losses occurred. Several things were going on. The d-side was a trainee and they were talking; the supervisor was behind me telling me he intended to split off part of my sector; I was trying to get the d-side to print a strip for an aims ticket; weather was in the area; so there were conversations about that happened. So there were distractions; but all of them operational. I saw an aircraft coming soon to me at FL230; and that's why I wanted to climb him to FL220. I don't have falcon audio; so I don't know what I did. The big thing is I'm off for a week of leave; and now I get to spend the next week wondering what I gave this guy. Why can't they give full performance levels (fpl) access to falcon audio again? I'm happy that he didn't get in the way of anyone else; the FL230 guy passed safely to his south; but I'm a little upset at myself that I missed either giving him FL220 or missing the FL230 read back. Instruct the quality control department to allow all radar trainees and fpl's to have access to audio recordings in falcon.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: ZID Controller reported automation track failure that resulted in an aircraft being assigned the wrong altitude.

Narrative: Aircraft X departed AOH. CMH Tower couldn't hand him off to me and called for a manual handoff; which we accepted. I tried to take the track several different ways but couldn't. I climbed him to FL220 and had the D-side coordinate that with the next sector (who it was flashing at). ZAU called and said the aircraft was now at FL230 and they weren't talking to him. I reached out on the frequency and he did say he was at FL230. I switched him to ZAU. No losses occurred. Several things were going on. The D-Side was a trainee and they were talking; the Supervisor was behind me telling me he intended to split off part of my sector; I was trying to get the D-side to print a strip for an AIMS ticket; weather was in the area; so there were conversations about that happened. So there were distractions; but all of them operational. I saw an aircraft coming soon to me at FL230; and that's why I wanted to climb him to FL220. I don't have Falcon Audio; so I don't know what I did. The big thing is I'm off for a week of leave; and now I get to spend the next week wondering what I gave this guy. Why can't they give Full Performance Levels (FPL) access to Falcon audio again? I'm happy that he didn't get in the way of anyone else; the FL230 guy passed safely to his south; but I'm a little upset at myself that I missed either giving him FL220 or missing the FL230 read back. Instruct the quality control department to allow ALL radar trainees and FPL's to have access to audio recordings in Falcon.

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.