Narrative:

While flying the nuevo [5] SID out of oakland; I climbed according to the SID. When I reached 3;000 feet; I began a turn to the left to a heading of 200 degrees as depicted on the plan view of the SID. Shortly thereafter the controller turned me back to the right to my initial heading of 270 degrees. I noticed that in the verbiage; the departure said to fly runway heading (270 degrees) for vectors to the subsequent radial. I think the plan view is very misleading since it implies the pilot should initiate turn at 3;000 feet.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A PA-28 pilot cleared via the OAK NUEVO 5 Departure; mistakenly flew the 'LOST COMMUNICATIONS PROCEDURE ONLY' track instead.

Narrative: While flying the NUEVO [5] SID out of Oakland; I climbed according to the SID. When I reached 3;000 feet; I began a turn to the left to a heading of 200 degrees as depicted on the plan view of the SID. Shortly thereafter the Controller turned me back to the right to my initial heading of 270 degrees. I noticed that in the verbiage; the departure said to fly runway heading (270 degrees) for vectors to the subsequent radial. I think the plan view is very misleading since it implies the pilot should initiate turn at 3;000 feet.

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.