An air carrier crew failed to see the psp cathedral nine departure routing to emrud after psp and at...

Narrative:

Climbing out of psp on the cathedral nine departure; we passed over psp and headed directly toward blh. Departure asked us if we were on the cathedral nine departure and we replied; 'yes; just passing over psp and heading to blh.' socal departure said that is not the cathedral nine departure; turn to heading 110 degrees to intercept the psp 104 radial. We were not more than a mile or two off course as we just passed over psp and blh was about an 80-degree heading. We immediately complied with instructions and after a few minutes were cleared direct blh. ATC did not mention any conflict and we did not inquire about any problems. Terrain was not a factor as the aircraft was climbing in excess of 2000 ft and minutes and we had a visual of the surrounding terrain. We both reviewed the FMS departure in the box and on the chart and discussed that the picture of the routing on the navigation display was confusing. We also discussed that the fix 'emrud' was not on our course and changed the FMS routing to go direct blh after psp. We both missed the text description for the 104 radial out of psp and the teardrop turn back to psp. I missed the turn and the emrud fix because I associated it with the trm transition; which was not our routing. A better review of the departure would of caught this mistake.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An air carrier crew failed to see the PSP Cathedral Nine departure routing to EMRUD after PSP and attempted to fly direct to Blythe. The depicted routing was not clear.

Narrative: Climbing out of PSP on the Cathedral Nine departure; we passed over PSP and headed directly toward BLH. Departure asked us if we were on the Cathedral Nine departure and we replied; 'yes; just passing over PSP and heading to BLH.' SOCAL Departure said that is not the Cathedral Nine departure; turn to heading 110 degrees to intercept the PSP 104 radial. We were not more than a mile or two off course as we just passed over PSP and BLH was about an 80-degree heading. We immediately complied with instructions and after a few minutes were cleared direct BLH. ATC did not mention any conflict and we did not inquire about any problems. Terrain was not a factor as the aircraft was climbing in excess of 2000 FT and minutes and we had a visual of the surrounding terrain. We both reviewed the FMS departure in the box and on the chart and discussed that the picture of the routing on the NAV display was confusing. We also discussed that the fix 'EMRUD' was not on our course and changed the FMS routing to go direct BLH after PSP. We both missed the text description for the 104 radial out of PSP and the teardrop turn back to PSP. I missed the turn and the EMRUD fix because I associated it with the TRM transition; which was not our routing. A better review of the departure would of caught this mistake.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.

Attributes
ACN	840701
Time
Date	200906
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	PSP.VORTAC
State Reference	CA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Medium Large Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Climb
Route In Use	SID Cathedral 9
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	FMS/FMC
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying First Officer
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Track / Heading All Types

An air carrier crew failed to see the psp cathedral nine departure routing to emrud after psp and attempted to fly direct to blythe. The depicted routing was not clear.