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B-747 crew; after checking enroute charts and querying ATC; discovered that the holding pattern in their FMC was incorrect. Crew used manual heading to enter the holding pattern and ipad information to reprogram the FMC. Crew mentioned a lack of training in locating holding data in the ipad.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1278566 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201507 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0601-1200 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | SFO.Airport |
| State Reference | CA |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | B747 Undifferentiated or Other Model |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Descent |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Component | |
| Aircraft Component | FMS/FMC |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | First Officer Pilot Not Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 205 Flight Crew Total 12883 Flight Crew Type 8101 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Track / Heading All Types |
Narrative:
Inside of 10 nm from pirat we were given holding as published; we were already at 250 knots. So we were approximately 1min 30sec from the hold fix. The FMC is programmed with the incorrect hold information. I have not been trained on the ipad in a method to find the holding pattern information. I was able to find it on the us low 3/4 and eventually self-taught to locate it on the ipad. We made a right turn into the hold per the FMC and then queried the controller on the correct holding information. We used heading select to get the correct holding pattern established and were eventually able to program the FMC correctly. The pirat holding information used to be on the area-1 chart but is no longer in our publications.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: B-747 crew; after checking enroute charts and querying ATC; discovered that the holding pattern in their FMC was incorrect. Crew used manual heading to enter the holding pattern and iPad information to reprogram the FMC. Crew mentioned a lack of training in locating holding data in the iPad.
Narrative: Inside of 10 nm from PIRAT we were given holding as published; we were already at 250 knots. So we were approximately 1min 30sec from the hold fix. The FMC is programmed with the incorrect hold information. I have not been trained on the ipad in a method to find the holding pattern information. I was able to find it on the US low 3/4 and eventually self-taught to locate it on the ipad. We made a right turn into the hold per the FMC and then queried the controller on the correct holding information. We used heading select to get the correct holding pattern established and were eventually able to program the FMC correctly. The PIRAT holding information used to be on the Area-1 chart but is no longer in our publications.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site 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.