PLT UNFAMILIAR WITH DUPAGE ARPT LOCATED AND SAW THE ARPT BUT UNAWARE OF NEW RWYS THOUGHT HE WAS AT WRONG ARPT AND PULLED OUT OF APCH PATTERN.
Synopsis
PLT UNFAMILIAR WITH DUPAGE ARPT LOCATED AND SAW THE ARPT BUT UNAWARE OF NEW RWYS THOUGHT HE WAS AT WRONG ARPT AND PULLED OUT OF APCH PATTERN.
Narrative
I FILED IFR FOR A FLT FROM MY HOME BASE; CEDAR RAPIDS; IA (CID) TO DUPAGE; IL (DPA). THE WX WAS VFR EXCELLENT VISIBILITY. I MADE SURE THERE WERE APPROPRIATE ENRTE CHARTS AND APCH PLATES IN THE COCKPIT. WE USE THE CHART SVC WHEREBY THE SUBSCRIBER IS PERIODICALLY SENT A COMPLETELY REVISED SET OF APCH PLATES AND ALSO SENT 8 PERIODICAL UPDATES WHICH ARE FILED BEHIND TABS - THE CONCEPT IS THAT THE PLT CHKS THE LATEST TAB INDEX PRIOR TO DEP TO SEE IF ANY RELEVANT PLATES HAVE BEEN UPDATED. FOR SOME INEXPLICABLE REASON; I DID NOT TAKE THIS STEP (CHK FOR REVISIONS). THIS MAY HAVE BEEN PARTIALLY CAUSED BY THE FACT THAT THE COMPLETE REVISION WAS QUITE NEW - 2 OF THE 8 UPDATES HAD BEEN RECEIVED. IN THE BRIEFING I RECEIVED PRIOR TO FILING; MENTION WAS MADE OF A NOTAM AT DUPAGE RELATING TO RWY 1. I KNOW THE ILS WAS ON RWY 10 THE NOTAM MOMENTARILY CONFUSED ME AND I DID NOT RESOLVE MY CONFUSION. AS I APCHED DUPAGE; I TUNED IN THE LOC FOR 10 AND NOTED THAT MY APCH WAS ALMOST PERFECTLY LINED UP WITH 10. THE ATIS INDICATED RWY 15-33 WAS CLOSED SO GIVEN THE ARPT DIAGRAM I WAS USING; IT WAS CLR TO ME THAT I WOULD BE LNDG ON 10...WHICH WAS IN USE ACCORDING TO THE ATIS. ACTUALLY; I THINK THE ATIS SAID 'LNDG AND DEPARTING RWY 10 LNDG RWY 1L'. RWY 10 AID 1L CONFUSED AND DISORIENTED ME - ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE FACT I WAS USING AN OUTDATED ARPT DIAGRAM. I ASKED THE EXTREMELY BUSY CHICAGO CTR CTLR FOR CLARIFICATION - HE RESPONDED (I THINK) AND HIS ANSWER WAS UNINTELLIGIBLE TO ME. WHEN I SAW THE ARPT; CHICAGO APCH CLRED ME FOR THE VISUAL (TO 1L) AND INSTRUCTED ME TO GO TO TWR. NOW ON TWR FREQ; I WAS A LITTLE STUNNED TO REALIZE THE ARPT IN VIEW WAS MOST CERTAINLY NOT HE DUPAGE I KNEW AND AT WHICH I OCCASIONALLY LANDED. I CONFESSED MY CONFUSION TO THE TWR AS I OVERFLEW THE APCH (DID NOT TURN FINAL ON 1L). THEY GAVE ME APPROPRIATE INSTRUCTIONS TO GET ME BACK IN A FINAL APCH CONFIGN AND I LANDED WITHOUT FURTHER INCIDENT. THIS IS NOT TO SAY MY CONFUSION AND DISORIENTATION DID NOT CAUSE ATC PROBLEMS - THEY WERE BUSY AND I'M SURE I WAS A PROBLEM FOR THEM.
Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.