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Air carrier captain reported a communications breakdown between flight crew and ATC regarding routing direct to similar sounding waypoints.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1612453 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201901 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Commercial Fixed Wing |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Cruise |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain Pilot Not Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Track / Heading All Types |
Narrative:
ATC called and asked; where are you going? I said; to wleee. He said; you were cleared to weeed. I said; I thought we were cleared to wleee for the wleee 5. He said; no!!! You are 40 miles off course. I said; ok; we will go to weed for the wleee 5. Maybe my hearing is not what it used to be. Maybe the radio was not so clear. Maybe ATC did not catch my readback. Maybe we were not as sharp as usual due to the early departure time.but for sure it did not help anyone that the arrival has two very similar sounding waypoints; weeed and wleee. Perhaps I can get a decent headset. Perhaps they can change the weeed to something else so as not to sound like wleee. (They both have three EEEs in them)
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Air carrier Captain reported a communications breakdown between flight crew and ATC regarding routing direct to similar sounding waypoints.
Narrative: ATC called and asked; Where are you going? I said; To WLEEE. He said; You were cleared to WEEED. I said; I thought we were cleared to WLEEE for the WLEEE 5. He said; NO!!! You are 40 miles off course. I said; OK; we will go to WEED for the WLEEE 5. Maybe my hearing is not what it used to be. Maybe the radio was not so clear. Maybe ATC did not catch my readback. Maybe we were not as sharp as usual due to the early departure time.But for sure it did not help anyone that the arrival has two very similar sounding waypoints; WEEED and WLEEE. Perhaps I can get a decent headset. Perhaps they can change the WEEED to something else so as not to sound like WLEEE. (They both have three EEEs in them)
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.