WDB ACFT WITH PDC READS ONLY PART OF CLRNC; OTHER PART TAKES OVERWATER AND NOT EQUIPPED.

Date: 1993-03 · Aircraft: Widebody; Low Wing; 2 Turbojet Eng

Anomalies: deviation-track-heading-all-types|deviation-discrepancy-procedural-clearance

Synopsis

WDB ACFT WITH PDC READS ONLY PART OF CLRNC; OTHER PART TAKES OVERWATER AND NOT EQUIPPED.

Narrative

THIS WAS AN INITIAL OPERATING EXPERIENCE FOR THE FO. THE ORIGINAL ACFT NEVER LEFT THE HANGAR DUE TO A MECHANICAL PROB. WE WERE ABOUT AN HR LATE WHEN MAINT SWITCHED PLANES. THE NEW ACFT WAS NOT OVERWATER EQUIPPED; SO THE COMPUTER FLT PLAN CHANGED FROM OVERWATER TO AN INLAND RTING. ALTHOUGH THE ACFT HAD SEVERAL ITEMS INOP AND AN ORIGINATING PREFLT HAD TO BE DONE; I FELT WE COULD STILL MAKE THE CONNECTING COMPLEX AT OUR DEST HUB IF WE MOVED RIGHT ALONG. THE CLRNC CAME OUT OF THE ACFT PRINTER. IT STARTED OUT THE SAME AS FILED AND THE RTE LOADED INTO THE ACFT. WHAT I FAILED TO SEE WAS THE CLRNC WENT OUT OVER THE WATER DOWN-LINE DIVERGING FROM THE FILED INLAND RTE. WE RECEIVED DIRECT CLRNC TO A FIX PAST THE POINT WHERE THE FILED AND THE CLRNC RTE SPLIT. APCHING OUR CLRNC LIMIT; THE NEXT CTR WAS UNABLE TO TAKE US. WE QUICKLY VERIFIED OUR FILED RTING WITH CTR AND WERE THEN CLRED AS FILED. DURING PREFLT I HAD THOUGHT THE FILED RTING AND THE PRINTED CLRNC WERE THE SAME BECAUSE; AT FIRST GLANCE; THEY LOOKED IDENTICAL. IT'S WHAT FELLOW THINKS HE KNOWS THAT HURTS HIM.

Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.