An instrument flight instructor failed to verify that his student had properly briefed the las north...

Attributes
ACN	859817
Time
Date	200911
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	VGT.Airport
State Reference	NV
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Small Aircraft Low Wing 1 Eng Fixed Gear
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Initial Climb
Route In Use	SID North Tower 2
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Instructor Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Flight Instructor
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 100 Flight Crew Total 5500 Flight Crew Type 3000
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Track / Heading All Types

Narrative:

Late night departure from vgt. Long day of flying; including broken fuel at mojave; unplanned reposition to wjf; then an overfill of fuel...searching for a pump; defuel; one of those days. Running late at vgt; student briefed departure. I followed by looking at the plate clipped in his yoke. ATC clearance; for north town 2 departure. After departure; approaching las; ATC asks us to maintain our own terrain separations. Ask why. He says 'you totally blew that departure.' I then look at the plate; ripped it off the yoke. We had flown the boulder city 2 departure instead of the cleared north town 2. Apologized profusely to ATC; but the facts remain: gross navigational deviation. I am the training manager of this program. I am mandating from now on everyone have their own plates; and a gross error check of both plates before flying a SID. Also; fatigue was probably a factor. Fatigue led to complacency; which lead to what happened. After such a long day; rushing to get home was probably not the best idea. Maybe we should have stayed in vgt. Also: never trust initial IFR students to have the correct plate at an unfamiliar airport!

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An instrument Flight Instructor failed to verify that his student had properly briefed the LAS North Tower 2 SID as cleared and so after takeoff the student flew the Boulder City 2 SID.

Narrative: Late night departure from VGT. Long day of flying; including broken fuel at Mojave; unplanned reposition to WJF; then an overfill of fuel...searching for a pump; defuel; one of those days. Running late at VGT; student briefed departure. I followed by looking at the plate clipped in his yoke. ATC clearance; for North Town 2 Departure. After departure; approaching LAS; ATC asks us to maintain our own terrain separations. Ask why. He says 'you totally blew that departure.' I then look at the plate; ripped it off the yoke. We had flown the Boulder City 2 Departure instead of the cleared North Town 2. Apologized profusely to ATC; but the facts remain: Gross navigational deviation. I am the Training Manager of this program. I am mandating from now on everyone have their own plates; and a gross error check of both plates before flying a SID. Also; fatigue was probably a factor. Fatigue led to complacency; which lead to what happened. After such a long day; rushing to get home was probably not the best idea. Maybe we should have stayed in VGT. Also: Never trust initial IFR students to have the correct plate at an unfamiliar airport!

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.

An instrument flight instructor failed to verify that his student had properly briefed the las north tower 2 SID as cleared and so after takeoff the student flew the boulder city 2 SID.