Crj-200 first officer reported a track deviation occurred when they delayed their turn on the SID de...

Attributes
ACN	1401464
Time
Date	201611
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ATL.Airport
State Reference	GA
Environment
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Regional Jet 200 ER/LR (CRJ200)
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Climb
Flight Plan	IFR
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Climb
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Track / Heading All Types Inflight Event / Encounter Wake Vortex Encounter

Narrative:

On climb out from atlanta we hit wake turbulence right as we were about to turn to follow the SID out of atlanta. I delayed the turn to maintain positive aircraft control while we were in wake turbulence. After we got out of the wake turbulence we were about a half dot off course. Seeing this I immediately turned to get on course; shortly after ATC issued us a heading of 330 to join the SID. Nothing else out of the normal occurred the rest of the flight. In learning from this event; I could have keyed the mic and let ATC know what happened and the corrective action being taken so there won't be any confusion.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: CRJ-200 First Officer reported a track deviation occurred when they delayed their turn on the SID departing ATL because of a wake turbulence encounter.

Narrative: On climb out from Atlanta we hit wake turbulence right as we were about to turn to follow the SID out of Atlanta. I delayed the turn to maintain positive aircraft control while we were in wake turbulence. After we got out of the wake turbulence we were about a half dot off course. Seeing this I immediately turned to get on course; shortly after ATC issued us a heading of 330 to join the SID. Nothing else out of the normal occurred the rest of the flight. In learning from this event; I could have keyed the mic and let ATC know what happened and the corrective action being taken so there won't be any confusion.

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.

Crj-200 first officer reported a track deviation occurred when they delayed their turn on the SID departing atl because of a wake turbulence encounter.