Narrative:

We were issued and briefed the teb 5 departure and were departing on runway 24. The procedure is to climb runway heading until reaching 1500 ft; then turn right heading 280 degrees. Where we got it wrong was that we misread the next part which is to maintain 1500 ft until 4.5 DME and then climb to 2000 ft. We had somehow gotten it in our heads that once we were on the 280 heading; we should climb to 2000 ft. New york queried as to what we were climbing to; and at that point we realized our mistake. ATC then issued us a climb to 8000 ft and told us to read better next time; which we will most assuredly do. We do not believe there were any issues with a loss of separation as we were not given any heading changes and no TCAS TA's were received.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: CE525 Captain reports exceeding 1500 ft on the TEB 5 departure prior to TEB 4.5 DME.

Narrative: We were issued and briefed the TEB 5 departure and were departing on Runway 24. The procedure is to climb runway heading until reaching 1500 ft; then turn right heading 280 degrees. Where we got it wrong was that we misread the next part which is to maintain 1500 ft until 4.5 DME and then climb to 2000 ft. We had somehow gotten it in our heads that once we were on the 280 heading; we should climb to 2000 ft. New York queried as to what we were climbing to; and at that point we realized our mistake. ATC then issued us a climb to 8000 ft and told us to read better next time; which we will most assuredly do. We do not believe there were any issues with a loss of separation as we were not given any heading changes and no TCAS TA's were received.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.