A320
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 75; Flight Crew Total 12500; Flight Crew Type 1425
Communication Breakdown; Other / Unknown
Deviation - Altitude Crossing Restriction Not Met; Deviation - Speed All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance; Air Traffic Control Issued Advisory / Alert
Procedure; Human Factors
We were cleared to descend via the GEELA5 arrival and had verified the constraints. We were on speed and thought on altitude when ATC queried us as we were descending out of 12;200 FT outside of PUNNT (which had a constraint of 12;000-9;000 FT). ATC informed us that the GEELA arrival had a NOTAM for PUNNT at 10;000 FT. We were given a heading of 040 to fly. No further problems were encountered. Upon debriefing with the First Officer; we verified that we did have all the papers and that the NOTAMs were reviewed. Factors that most likely contributed to this NOTAM being missed were the short turn time with an airplane change; an excessive number of NOTAMs for PHX which gave us several pages of them; the lack of order to the NOTAMs; and the fact that this NOTAM printed with two others separated by space on our papers. We did find it; but we had to search.
We were cleared to PHX on the GEELA FIVE RNAV ARRIVAL 7R; and received a clearance to descend via the arrival. We were doing a managed descent and set 5;000 FT in the ALT window. Approximately one mile from PUNNT descending through 12;200 FT at 250 KTS ATC asked our speed and altitude. ATC then informed us that the restriction for PUNNT was 230 KTS at 10;000 FT. ATC vectored us off the arrival and gave us a 040 heading to intercept the Runway 08 localizer. Subsequent communications with ATC revealed that a NOTAM had been issued for the GEELA FIVE ARRIVAL changing the crossing restriction. The flight continued to landing without incident. The Captain and I did the preflight planning for the PHX flight while airborne on the previous leg as we were running about 25 minutes late and knew we would have less than thirty minutes to change planes and depart for Phoenix. The flight papers printed contained an 'INCOMPLETE MESSAGE' and large blocks of largely unformatted text. Prior to descent into PHX the Captain and I checked to make sure we had the current Commercial Chart page and we each checked the crossing restrictions in the FMGC to make sure they matched the charted restrictions. The sheer number of NOTAMs combined with the difficulty in reading them as printed by the aircraft ACARS printer contributed to us missing the change to our arrival procedure.
A320 flight crew reports missing a NOTAM changing the crossing restriction at PUNNT on the GEELA 5 RNAV to PHX. ATC advises and issues a vector. The NOTAM in question was buried in a very large list.