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Air carrier flight crew reported tower issued a clearance to a fix and departure control did not know about it.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1618107 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201902 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | DFW.Tower |
| State Reference | TX |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Commercial Fixed Wing |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Climb Takeoff |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | First Officer Pilot Flying |
| Person 2 | |
| Function | Pilot Not Flying Captain |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | ATC Issue All Types Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Track / Heading All Types |
Narrative:
A normal takeoff clearance was received. After airborne tower cleared us direct to feztr. At about 6;000 ft. Tower handed us off to departure. Departure assigned us a heading stating; 'you're way off course.' the captain; as pilot monitoring; replied that tower gave us direct feztr. Eventually departure cleared us to another fix down line and own nav on course. The tower gave us a late handoff and told us to go direct to feztr. After the confusing check on with departure control we both agreed that it was odd to be cleared to a down line fix by tower. And it was odd that tower kept us on frequency so long. And it was odd that departure knew nothing about it. We had a rider in the jumpseat listening in and we all agreed that we heard the clearance to feztr. We could have asked tower for a handoff sooner. We could have questioned tower's instruction to go direct feztr; but we thought tower and departure control were jointly monitoring/coordinating our progress reference some other traffic. On check in with departure control; we said we were climbing via the departure; but it would have been more clear to highlight the non standard situation by stating we were proceeding direct feztr per tower's direction.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Air Carrier flight crew reported Tower issued a clearance to a fix and Departure Control did not know about it.
Narrative: A normal takeoff clearance was received. After airborne Tower cleared us direct to FEZTR. At about 6;000 ft. Tower handed us off to Departure. Departure assigned us a heading stating; 'you're way off course.' The Captain; as Pilot Monitoring; replied that Tower gave us direct FEZTR. Eventually Departure cleared us to another fix down line and own nav on course. The Tower gave us a late handoff and told us to go direct to FEZTR. After the confusing check on with Departure Control we both agreed that it was odd to be cleared to a down line fix by Tower. And it was odd that Tower kept us on frequency so long. And it was odd that Departure knew nothing about it. We had a rider in the jumpseat listening in and we all agreed that we heard the clearance to FEZTR. We could have asked Tower for a handoff sooner. We could have questioned Tower's instruction to go direct FEZTR; but we thought Tower and Departure control were jointly monitoring/coordinating our progress reference some other traffic. On check in with Departure Control; we said we were climbing via the departure; but it would have been more clear to highlight the non standard situation by stating we were proceeding direct FEZTR per Tower's direction.
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.