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Fox Xray · March 3rd, 2007, 22:20

I think the early posters hit the nail on the head in this post... the departure controller was most likely showing different routing then you were cleared on. It happens more often then you think.

I was involved in an incident sometime ago because of showing something different then the pilot had. A/C was level and I was showing routing straight down the airway. Well... about 6 sectors earlier he requested a change of destination. The controller cleared the A/C but never got the new routing into the computer... half way through my sector he makes a hard right at a fix and is now head on with another A/C at 10K... I noticed him make the turn and cranked him and the other A/C away from each other. Neither A/C had TCAS either... Tapes were pulled and the cause was discovered... I felt bad that it was another controller that would be charged with the error BUT as it turned out it was a supervisor getting his monthly currency time that caused the error...

In your case if something happened or if the controller pushed the issue you would have been clean... you flew what you were cleared via.

March 3rd, 2007, 22:20	#8
Fox Xray ATC Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 437	Re: An early turn? I think the early posters hit the nail on the head in this post... the departure controller was most likely showing different routing then you were cleared on. It happens more often then you think. I was involved in an incident sometime ago because of showing something different then the pilot had. A/C was level and I was showing routing straight down the airway. Well... about 6 sectors earlier he requested a change of destination. The controller cleared the A/C but never got the new routing into the computer... half way through my sector he makes a hard right at a fix and is now head on with another A/C at 10K... I noticed him make the turn and cranked him and the other A/C away from each other. Neither A/C had TCAS either... Tapes were pulled and the cause was discovered... I felt bad that it was another controller that would be charged with the error BUT as it turned out it was a supervisor getting his monthly currency time that caused the error... In your case if something happened or if the controller pushed the issue you would have been clean... you flew what you were cleared via.