Distracted by pre-departure duties; an air carrier flight crew failed to note the revised departure ...

Narrative:

Prior to departure; we had to do an aircraft swap (including a change in aircraft model type) and then they changed our departure gate two times. It was the first officer's leg and he loaded the flight plan into the navigation computer. I checked the route and it all looked good. We were filed for the zaver departure. When the clearance came in it showed us with an andys departure. However; the first officer failed to load the andys departure and I failed to notice that it had not been loaded.we were cleared for takeoff and to fly to the first fix which is hisor. We took off and at 200 ft the first officer asked for autopilot two. We now noticed an aircraft taking off just before us on runway 18C. As we climbed out; tower switched us to departure. I switched to 120.5; which is departure for the zaver SID. Departure called radar contact and switched us immediately to 124.0 and checked in as the aircraft started to turn to the right in the direction of the aircraft departing 18C. I was thinking that the other aircraft better turn soon as we were headed his way.departure told us to turn left to a heading and asked what departure we were on. I told him the zaver and he said we should be on the andys. At this point I looked at the clearance and knew he was right. Now it was too late to change the SID and departure gave us vectors to a fix on the andys SID. I then inserted the rest of the SID by hand.I was wrong and should have caught the first officer's error. I do feel that both sids having the same first fix gives a false sense of security. Tower cleared us to hisor and that was our first fix. Only after you are airborne do you learn something is wrong and it is not easy to take out the other SID and load the fixes as you are still in the initial climb phase of flight and there is still a lot going on.however; I'm the captain and it is my responsibility to ensure everything is done right.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Distracted by pre-departure duties; an air carrier flight crew failed to note the revised departure in their PDC clearance. A brief track deviation after takeoff ensued.

Narrative: Prior to departure; we had to do an aircraft swap (including a change in aircraft model type) and then they changed our departure gate two times. It was the First Officer's leg and he loaded the flight plan into the navigation computer. I checked the route and it all looked good. We were filed for the ZAVER Departure. When the clearance came in it showed us with an ANDYS Departure. However; the First Officer failed to load the ANDYS Departure and I failed to notice that it had not been loaded.We were cleared for takeoff and to fly to the first fix which is HISOR. We took off and at 200 FT the First Officer asked for autopilot two. We now noticed an aircraft taking off just before us on Runway 18C. As we climbed out; Tower switched us to Departure. I switched to 120.5; which is departure for the ZAVER SID. Departure called radar contact and switched us immediately to 124.0 and checked in as the aircraft started to turn to the right in the direction of the aircraft departing 18C. I was thinking that the other aircraft better turn soon as we were headed his way.Departure told us to turn left to a heading and asked what departure we were on. I told him the ZAVER and he said we should be on the ANDYS. At this point I looked at the clearance and knew he was right. Now it was too late to change the SID and Departure gave us vectors to a fix on the ANDYS SID. I then inserted the rest of the SID by hand.I was wrong and should have caught the First Officer's error. I do feel that both SIDs having the same first fix gives a false sense of security. Tower cleared us to HISOR and that was our first fix. Only after you are airborne do you learn something is wrong and it is not easy to take out the other SID and load the fixes as you are still in the initial climb phase of flight and there is still a lot going on.However; I'm the Captain and it is my responsibility to ensure everything is done right.

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	958375
Time
Date	201107
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	CLT.Airport
State Reference	NC
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Dusk
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Climb
Route In Use	SID ANDYS6
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	FMS/FMC
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Person 2
Function	First Officer Pilot Flying
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Track / Heading All Types

Distracted by pre-departure duties; an air carrier flight crew failed to note the revised departure in their pre departure clearance clearance. A brief track deviation after takeoff ensued.