An airbus crew new to the sabre format; misread a sabre flight plan FMGC presentation and after depa...

Attributes
ACN	1081297
Time
Date	201304
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	MMEX.ARTCC
State Reference	FO
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Airbus 318/319/320/321 Undifferentiated
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Climb
Route In Use	SID BETER4
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Flying
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 100 Flight Crew Total 15000 Flight Crew Type 5000
Person 2
Function	Pilot Not Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Track / Heading All Types

Narrative:

We downloaded via datalink our route per the new sabre flight plan. When we received our clearance by radio from mex clearance delivery; it was slightly different from what we were filed. We were filed apn UJ15 tam J177.... We were cleared BETER4 departure to beter then as filed (which is what was read back). During climbout; after passing beter; ATC asked if we were proceeding direct tam. We responded we were proceeding to xosox; UJ15 to tam. Nothing else was said by ATC; but we thought is was a strange question; so we looked back at the departure; and noted that beter intersection is not on UJ15. We concluded that we possibly should have joined J177 at beter and proceeded via J177 to tam. I think a combination of clearance delivery ambiguity and non-standard delivery may have lead to the confusion. Also; the fact that we were having additional trouble obtaining revised takeoff data via ACARS; may have lead to the distraction of not entering the correct routing.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An Airbus crew new to the SABRE format; misread a SABRE flight plan FMGC presentation and after departing MEX. They had a track deviation because they failed to recognized a difference in the Clearance Delivery routing.

Narrative: We downloaded via datalink our route per the new Sabre flight plan. When we received our clearance by radio from MEX clearance delivery; it was slightly different from what we were filed. We were filed APN UJ15 TAM J177.... We were cleared BETER4 departure to BETER then as filed (which is what was read back). During climbout; after passing BETER; ATC asked if we were proceeding direct TAM. We responded we were proceeding to XOSOX; UJ15 to TAM. Nothing else was said by ATC; but we thought is was a strange question; so we looked back at the departure; and noted that BETER intersection is not on UJ15. We concluded that we possibly should have joined J177 at BETER and proceeded via J177 to TAM. I think a combination of Clearance Delivery ambiguity and non-standard delivery may have lead to the confusion. Also; the fact that we were having additional trouble obtaining revised Takeoff Data via ACARS; may have lead to the distraction of not entering the correct routing.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

An airbus crew new to the sabre format; misread a sabre flight plan FMGC presentation and after departing mex. They had a track deviation because they failed to recognized a difference in the clearance delivery routing.