A B737-700 flight crew suffered a track deviation on the offshore SID; sxc transition when they unne...

Attributes
ACN	1069040
Time
Date	201302
Local Time Of Day	0001-0600
Place
Locale Reference	ZOA.ARTCC
State Reference	CA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B737-700
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Cruise
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	FMS/FMC
Person 1
Function	First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Person 2
Function	Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Track / Heading All Types

Narrative:

ATC asked our filed route after mckey intersection and assigned us a heading. We checked the flight plan against the legs page and found two fixes missing in the departure. Daisy and benet prior to sxc on the offsh departure. We reloaded the correct fixes and proceeded on the route as filed.I figured out how this happened. I loaded the FMS with the [canned route] and it loaded 1R for departure. When I went to the departures and arrivals page and selected the correct runway 1L for our flight I then reselected the OFFSH6 and saw below the transition sxc with an act beside it. I then was thinking ok it's already there; but apparently to get the transition complete you must reselect it again and have it show sel beside it or it drops when you execute it with just an act beside it. Nice got'cha; it got me. Not again though. Please put out a flight operations bulletin. Please let others know about this got'cha. We and ATC corrected it before there was any significant course deviation; but we felt others needed to know before some one else was led farther astray and gets into trouble.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A B737-700 flight crew suffered a track deviation on the OFFSHORE SID; SXC transition when they unnecessarily reinstalled the SID but not the transition after changing their departure Runway 1L.

Narrative: ATC asked our filed route after MCKEY Intersection and assigned us a heading. We checked the flight plan against the legs page and found two fixes missing in the departure. DAISY and BENET prior to SXC on the OFFSH departure. We reloaded the correct fixes and proceeded on the route as filed.I figured out how this happened. I loaded the FMS with the [canned route] and it loaded 1R for departure. When I went to the departures and arrivals page and selected the correct Runway 1L for our flight I then reselected the OFFSH6 and saw below the transition SXC with an ACT beside it. I then was thinking OK it's already there; but apparently to get the transition complete you must reselect it again and have it show SEL beside it or it drops when you execute it with just an ACT beside it. Nice got'cha; it got me. Not again though. Please put out a Flight Operations bulletin. Please let others know about this got'cha. We and ATC corrected it before there was any significant course deviation; but we felt others needed to know before some one else was led farther astray and gets into trouble.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 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.

A B737-700 flight crew suffered a track deviation on the offshore SID; sxc transition when they unnecessarily reinstalled the SID but not the transition after changing their departure runway 1L.