A corporate jet pilot reported that ATC issued a terrain alert along with a heading and altitude cha...

Attributes
ACN	1070865
Time
Date	201302
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	SCT.TRACON
State Reference	CA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Medium Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Climb
Route In Use	Direct
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 150 Flight Crew Total 6400 Flight Crew Type 850
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Track / Heading All Types Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

Narrative:

We were repositioning our aircraft part 91 from udd to the east coast on an IFR flight plan. We picked up our clearance on the ground and read back the clearance to socal. We read back cleared ... Via the udd obstacle departure psp-dejay... Once airborne we followed that clearance as we thought that is what we were given. As we departed the psp VOR we were given a terrain warning from socal and given instructions to climb to 13;000 ft and fly a new heading to avoid terrain. Our aircraft never did give us a terrain warning but we were very confused. The issue and concern is we were supposed to be flying to 'deway' intersection and not 'dejay'. I find it very dangerous to have two intersections with very similar sounds and spelling that close together in the same airspace. Having two similar intersections caused us confusion and could of caused us to fly into terrain. We appreciate socal doing their job but would ask that one of those intersections named be changed.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A corporate jet pilot reported that ATC issued a terrain alert along with a heading and altitude change after the flight crew began navigating to DEJAY Intersection in mountainous terrain instead of to DEWAY.

Narrative: We were repositioning our aircraft Part 91 from UDD to the East Coast on an IFR flight plan. We picked up our clearance on the ground and read back the clearance to SOCAL. We read back cleared ... via the UDD obstacle departure PSP-DEJAY... Once airborne we followed that clearance as we thought that is what we were given. As we departed the PSP VOR we were given a terrain warning from SOCAL and given instructions to climb to 13;000 FT and fly a new heading to avoid terrain. Our aircraft never did give us a terrain warning but we were very confused. The issue and concern is we were supposed to be flying to 'DEWAY' Intersection and not 'DEJAY'. I find it very dangerous to have two intersections with very similar sounds and spelling that close together in the same airspace. Having two similar intersections caused us confusion and could of caused us to fly into terrain. We appreciate SOCAL doing their job but would ask that one of those intersections named be changed.

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 corporate jet pilot reported that ATC issued a terrain alert along with a heading and altitude change after the flight crew began navigating to dejay intersection in mountainous terrain instead of to deway.