Super King Air 350
Flight Crew Flight Engineer; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 64; Flight Crew Total 10500; Flight Crew Type 45
Human-Machine Interface; Situational Awareness
Deviation - Altitude Crossing Restriction Not Met; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Air Traffic Control Issued Advisory / Alert; Flight Crew Became Reoriented; Flight Crew Returned To Clearance
Human Factors; Aircraft
Approaching TEB from the southwest we were given vectors to intercept the ILS localizer. Our FMS does not enable ILS approaches nor is this approach available to download directly into the FMS. After intercepting the localizer at 2;000 FT MSL we were cleared for the ILS 6 and subsequently given the 1;500 FT mandatory crossing restriction at DANDY. Poor crew coordination led to both the pilot flying and pilot not flying setting the ILS localizer frequency into both NAVs and the TEB DME was temporarily not available to identify the fix. This resulted in a delay in determining precisely where DANDY was in relation to our current position. After being reminded of the restriction from ATC and determining that we were very close we expedited our descent and believe we complied with the restriction but it should have never been in question. Other than one brief local flight; this was the first flight the pilot flying and pilot not flying had worked together and our crew coordination was poor on this approach. All approach fixes should have been manually entered into the FMA for reference and the required DME available in a timely manner regardless of the VMC conditions.
King Air 350 Captain reports crew coordination issues during the ILS to Runway 6 at TEB. Both pilots are tuned to the ILS frequency and DANDY cannot be readily identified until the First Officer tunes the TEB VOR. The crossing restriction at DANDY may have been missed.