DC-10 30
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Communication Breakdown; Training / Qualification
ATC Issue All Types; Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Conflict Airborne Conflict
Air Traffic Control Issued Advisory / Alert; Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance; Flight Crew Executed Go Around / Missed Approach
Aircraft; Human Factors
The flight was the 5th for the new Captain on his IOE pairing. I was the LCA and the pilot not flying in the right seat. Night; the weather was 900 overcast with seven miles visibility. We were established on the OAK Runway 29 ILS; on tower frequency; inside MITOE just below 2;500 MSL. When the landing gear was lowered; we got a level 2 Anti-skid R Fail alert. The student Captain initiated a go-around to trouble shoot the problem and I told the Tower we were on the missed approach. By that time we were passing 3;200 MSL. The Tower instructed us to maintain 2;000 and runway heading due to traffic as we were passing 3;500 in the climb. I reported our altitude and Tower then assigned 3;000 and runway heading. I told Tower we would descend to 3;000 and maintain runway heading. We did not receive any TCAS alerts; or hear anymore about traffic conflict.We had enough time that we could have coordinated the go-around better between the pilot flying and the pilot not flying; and then given the Tower more heads up to de-conflict any possible traffic. The Captain student had been briefed by me to be the Captain and be decisive. He was cleared for the ILS and assumed that a landing without antiskid would be unsafe; and go-around via the published procedure was a correct response to trouble shoot the level 2 alert. In retrospect; we the crew could have taken a moment to both get on the same page; and also give the Tower some heads up of our plan to go-around and trouble shoot our problem.
A new DC10-30 Captain obtaining IOE initiated an immediate go-around when confronted with an antiskid inop message upon extending the landing gear while about 2;500 AFE. The go around created a traffic conflict for ATC and a quick resolution of conflicting actual versus appropriate altitudes had to be made quickly.