1998-05 · NASA ASRS report 403783
FLC OF F100 FOLLOWS ARR ROUTE EVEN THOUGH ALERTED TO THE FACT THAT IT WAS CHANGED. ATC ISSUED VECTORS.
ATC FACILITY: STL APCH. LOCATION: CSX/070/8. ON THE VANDALIA 3 ARR AS PF I ERRED IN FOLLOWING THE COMMERCIAL CHART STAR FOR REF AND DEVIATED N OF THE ASSIGNED COURSE. ATC HAD TO VECTOR US ON THE APCH AS A RESULT. ALTHOUGH I HAD REVIEWED AND UNDERSCORED THE MESSAGE WHICH CHANGED THE ARR; WHILE USING THE COMMERCIAL CHART FOR REF WE DEVIATED W OF THE ASSIGNED COURSE: THE CSX 250 INBOUND TO 8 DME; THEN RIGHT 300 DEGS. THE COMMERCIAL CHART IS SIGNIFICANTLY OFF COURSE; AS IS THE ACFT DATABASE. AS STATED; THE INTXNS ARE UNUSABLE. THE COMMERCIAL CHART PAGE OUGHT TO BE PITCHED. WHILE THE DATABASE HDGS APPEARED TO BE ON COURSE; THE ENTIRE STAR IN THE FMC NDB IS ALSO UNUSABLE. I ATTRIBUTE THIS NAV ERROR TO BEING OVER-TIRED. I HAVE BEEN FEELING PRETTY WORN OUT LATELY. THE MESSAGE ABOUT THE STAR WAS CLR; I CAN'T THINK OF ANY REASON WHY I SHOULD HAVE MISSED IT. IT WAS CERTAINLY UNINTENTIONAL. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: RPTR STATES THAT ANY UNUSUAL INFO BEYOND THE NORMAL CLRNC IS ISSUED BY DISPATCH AND IT WAS INDEED LISTED BELOW THE CLRNC BUT THE CAPT FAILED TO BRIEF THE INFO. BOTH HE AND THE FO MISSED THE AMENDMENT. A RADIAL HAD BEEN CHANGED AND A NEW FIX ESTABLISHED. ATC VECTORED THEM TO THE CORRECT POS. RPTR CHKED HIS CURRENT REVISIONS AND COMMERCIAL CHART MAKER HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY REQUEST TO UPDATE THE STAR. SUPPLEMENTAL INFO FROM ACN 403784: WE RECEIVED A REVISED CLRNC PRIOR TO DEP FROM O'HARE CLRING US FOR THE VANDALIA 3 ARR EVEN THOUGH COMMERCIAL CHART VLA 3 WAS UNUSABLE (OUR ORIGINAL CLRNC HAD NO STAR). IF IT WAS KNOWN BY DISPATCH AND ATC THAT THE COMMERCIAL CHART STAR WAS UNUSABLE WHY WOULD WE BE CLRED FOR IT; ESPECIALLY WITH A BOGUS NAV DATABASE?
Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.
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