A CRJ70 pilot comments that his aircraft's FMS does not have the rsw runway 6 CSHEL3 RNAV departure ...

Narrative:

We were issued the CSHEL3 RNAV departure lal transition off runway 6 at rsw. The instructions for the CSHEL3 RNAV departure off runway 6 states 'climb heading 058 or as assigned...expect vectors to cshel; then via depicted route to pulec.' after departure; on climb out; the controller issued us the clearance 'cleared direct cshel.' the cshel fix is not in the FMS if using runway 6. With runway 6 selected; the first fix on the FMS is junlo. We had to go back in and select the cshel departure for runway 24 to get cshel to show up. I also verified that we were using the correctly dated database just to be sure that we weren't using the out-of-date database. We opted to select this method because we have always been told not to 'build' the fixes when using RNAV departures. We proceeded on course without further incident or without any navigation deviation. Suggestions: the FMS database may need to be updated to reflect having cshel as the first fix when operating off runway 6 at rsw.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A CRJ70 Pilot comments that his aircraft's FMS does not have the RSW Runway 6 CSHEL3 RNAV Departure in its database. As a result when cleared direct CSHEL off of Runway 6 the RSW Runway 24 CSHEL3 must be selected in order to get the cleared routing.

Narrative: We were issued the CSHEL3 RNAV Departure LAL transition off Runway 6 at RSW. The instructions for the CSHEL3 RNAV Departure off Runway 6 states 'Climb heading 058 or as assigned...expect vectors to CSHEL; then via depicted route to PULEC.' After departure; on climb out; the Controller issued us the clearance 'Cleared direct CSHEL.' The CSHEL fix is not in the FMS if using Runway 6. With Runway 6 selected; the first fix on the FMS is JUNLO. We had to go back in and select the CSHEL Departure for Runway 24 to get CSHEL to show up. I also verified that we were using the correctly dated database just to be sure that we weren't using the out-of-date database. We opted to select this method because we have always been told not to 'build' the fixes when using RNAV departures. We proceeded on course without further incident or without any navigation deviation. Suggestions: The FMS database may need to be updated to reflect having CSHEL as the first fix when operating off Runway 6 at RSW.

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	872653
Time
Date	201002
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	RSW.Airport
State Reference	FL
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Dawn
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Regional Jet 700 ER/LR (CRJ700)
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Climb
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	FMS/FMC
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 200 Flight Crew Total 5000 Flight Crew Type 4000
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Other / Unknown

A CRJ70 pilot comments that his aircraft's FMS does not have the rsw runway 6 CSHEL3 RNAV departure in its database. As a result when cleared direct cshel off of runway 6 the rsw runway 24 CSHEL3 must be selected in order to get the cleared routing.