FLC FAILED TO COMPLY WITH IFR DEP PROC.

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DURING DEP FROM EAGLE; CO ARPT. MISINTERP OF DEP ON IFR FLT PLAN FROM ARPT. FLYING WITH NEW CREW MEMBER AT ARPT I HAVE NOT DEPARTED FROM BEFORE I READ OVER THE DEP PROC. I MISREAD THE DEP TO MAKE A L TURN AT 9000 FT WHEN I SHOULD HAVE MADE A R TURN. WAS CLR WX AND IN A MOUNTAINOUS AREA WHERE I WAS LOOKING OUTSIDE TRYING TO AVOID ANY TERRAIN OR OTHER ACFT AND SIMPLY MADE THE WRONG TURN. SHOULD HAVE READ CHART AND BRIEFED OTHER PLT MORE CAREFULLY. AFTER RADIO WAS SWITCHED FROM TWR TO ZDV; I WAS QUESTIONED WHICH WAY I HAD MADE THE TURN TO. AFTER DISCOVERING I TURNED IMPROPERLY; CTR TOLD ME TO CONTINUE TURN TO THE DEP FIX (KREMMING VOR CO). I CONTINUED THE TURN AND PROCEEDED TO THE VOR CONTINUING THE CLB. NO OTHER ACFT WHERE INVOLVED AND WE CONTINUED ON THE TRIP. I NOTIFIED CTR OF THE MISTAKE. I BELIEVE IT COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED BY BETTER CREW COORD PRIOR TO DEP -- READING THE DEP MORE CAREFULLY AND BEING MORE FAMILIAR WITH MY ENVIRONMENT AT THAT PARTICULAR ARPT. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: THE MULTI RPTS SHOWED BOTH PLTS WERE THE CAPTS AND BOTH PLTS WERE THE PF. THIS RPTR WAS THE PIC BUT ACTING AS THE COPLT IN THE R SEAT. DURING THIS FLT AND THE PNF. THE OTHER PLT DOING THE FLYING WAS IN THE L SEAT AND THOUGH NOT OFFICIALLY LISTED AS THE PIC ON THIS FLT WAS A QUALIFIED CAPT. OF NOTE IS THE PHENOMENA THAT SOME PLTS GET VERY UNEASY WHEN FLYING WITH ANOTHER VERY EXPERIENCED CAPT FLYING AS COPLT. 2 QUALIFIED CAPTS AND NO COPLT IS NOT BETTER THAN A QUALIFIED CAPT AND A QUALIFIED COPLT WHO IS NOT A QUALIFIED CAPT. ACCIDENT STATISTICS SUPPORT THIS. THE BRIEFING BY THE CAPT FLYING MAY HAVE BEEN MORE THOROUGH IF HE WERE FLYING WITH A COPLT. THE RPTR STATED HE FELT THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A PLAN VIEW DEPICTION AND THE NARRATIVE COULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN MORE CLRLY BY HAVING THE ALTS PROGRESS AS THE RESTRS OCCUR IN THE CLB. THE PF KNEW HE DID NOT HAVE THE CLRNC TOTALLY UNDERSTOOD; BUT CLR AND 75 MI VISIBILITY; 2 BOEING 757'S WAITING FOR TKOF BEHIND HIM; THEY HAD A SIMPLE DEP DIRECT LAST WK; AN EXPERIENCED CAPT IN THE R SEAT AS COPLT -- 'WE CAN WING IT' HE THOUGHT.