Air carrier departure from tpa climbing at 6;000 ft FPM and leaving 4;300 ft was assigned 5;000 ft; ...

Attributes
ACN	985962
Time
Date	201112
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.TRACON
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	A300
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Climb
Route In Use	Direct
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Flight Engineer
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 45 Flight Crew Total 5800 Flight Crew Type 3900
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Altitude Overshoot

Narrative:

Assigned climb to 12;000 ft. [I was] passing 4;300 ft in a very light weight A300 climbing at over 6;000 FPM were told to level off at 5;000 ft. The first officer pushed over aggressively and pulled back power. The result was a pilot induced oscillation with maximum altitude reached of 5;400 ft and maximum speed of 285 KTS. The controller realized after proving the clearance that it would be almost impossible for us to comply and asked if we could make the 5;000 ft restriction to which I replied we were trying. He said make what we could. Part of the problem was the controller was not used to seeing an empty wide body climb at 6;000 FPM and the speed with which we achieved 5;000 ft was causing a traffic concern.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air Carrier departure from TPA climbing at 6;000 FT FPM and leaving 4;300 FT was assigned 5;000 FT; but leveled at 5;400 FT before descending. The reporter suspected ATC unfamiliarity with the aircraft climb rate.

Narrative: Assigned climb to 12;000 FT. [I was] passing 4;300 FT in a very light weight A300 climbing at over 6;000 FPM were told to level off at 5;000 FT. The First Officer pushed over aggressively and pulled back power. The result was a pilot induced oscillation with maximum altitude reached of 5;400 FT and maximum speed of 285 KTS. The Controller realized after proving the clearance that it would be almost impossible for us to comply and asked if we could make the 5;000 FT restriction to which I replied we were trying. He said make what we could. Part of the problem was the Controller was not used to seeing an empty wide body climb at 6;000 FPM and the speed with which we achieved 5;000 FT was causing a traffic concern.

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.

Air carrier departure from tpa climbing at 6;000 ft FPM and leaving 4;300 ft was assigned 5;000 ft; but leveled at 5;400 ft before descending. The reporter suspected ATC unfamiliarity with the aircraft climb rate.