FLT CREW HAD DIFFICULTY FINDING INTERSECTIONS IN THE BLM AREA.

Date: 1988-05 · Aircraft: Small Transport; Low Wing; 2 Turboprop Eng · Phase: landing

Anomalies: other-unspecified

Synopsis

FLT CREW HAD DIFFICULTY FINDING INTERSECTIONS IN THE BLM AREA.

Narrative

UPON ARR TO THE VICINITY OF BLM WE WERE CLRED FOR A VOR APCH AND WERE NOT ABLE TO GET BELOW CEILING AT MDA. WE WERE THEN INSTRUCTED TO GO DIRECT TO CASVI INTXN AND HOLD. IMMEDIATELY AFTER THAT WE WERE INSTRUCTED TO GO DIRECT CABBY AND HOLD. I FEEL THAT THE INTXN NAMES ARE CONFUSING AND ONE OF THE NAMES SHOULD BE CHANGES. IT MAY SOUND SIMPLE TO ASK FOR A SPELLING OF THE INTXN FROM THE CTLR; BUT IN THE WORLD OF BUSY NJ; THE CHANCE OF GETTING A WORD IN EDGEWISE IS SLIM. ALSO; BEING FROM A DIFFERENT PART OF THE COUNTRY; THE CTLR PRONOUNCED THE INTXN DIFFERENTLY; AND I HAD A HARD TIME UNDERSTANDING. MY COPLT AND I SPENT SOME VALUABLE TIME TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE CTLR AND DISTINGUISHING CABBY FROM CASVI. TWO MORE CONTRASTING NAMES MIGHT KEEP ANOTHER PLT FROM HOLDING IN THE WRONG SPOT DUE TO A CTLR'S WORKLOAD AND PRONUNCIATION. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING: WHEN THE MISSED APCH WAS EXECUTED; THEY WERE CLRED DIRECT TO CABBY INTERSECTION. CABBY INTXN IS NOT DEPICTED ON THE VOR A CHART; ONLY ON THE SDF RWY 14 CHART. APCH CTLR DID NOT GIVE FLT CREW A CLUE THAT THE INTXN WAS ON A CHART DIFFERENT THAT THE ONE IN USE. THE ENTIRE OPERATION REQUIRED A LOT OF SCRAMBLING IN THE COCKPIT AS 3 DIFFERENT CHARTS HAD TO BE SCANNED TO LOCATE THE INTXNS INVOLVED.

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