Narrative:

Inbound on the drllr 1 arrival into houston the FMS/autopilot failed to sequence past the domno fix. When reaching this fix; the plane automatically disengaged LNAV and went into basic roll mode instead of making the required turn. Right as this happened I turned the plane back to intercept the arrival and my first officer re-engaged the nav function of the autopilot and we reintercepted the arrival. Had we both not been watching the airplane that closely we could've had a fairly significant deviation at a lower altitude over the top of a busy airport. As it was; as houston approach called to verify that we were making the turn; we were already in the turn back to course. Approaching that point there was not a single sign in the flight plan or the FMS or on the course depiction on the nd that the airplane would not make a turn as expected.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: EMB-135 Captain reports that the autopilot failed to turn over the DOMNO fix as programmed; during the DRLLR 1 RNAV arrival to IAH. The deviation is immediately detected and corrected.

Narrative: Inbound on the DRLLR 1 arrival into Houston the FMS/autopilot failed to sequence past the DOMNO fix. When reaching this fix; the plane automatically disengaged LNAV and went into basic roll mode instead of making the required turn. Right as this happened I turned the plane back to intercept the arrival and my First Officer re-engaged the nav function of the autopilot and we reintercepted the arrival. Had we both not been watching the airplane that closely we could've had a fairly significant deviation at a lower altitude over the top of a busy airport. As it was; as Houston Approach called to verify that we were making the turn; we were already in the turn back to course. Approaching that point there was not a single sign in the flight plan or the FMS or on the course depiction on the ND that the airplane would not make a turn as expected.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site 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.