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Citation C680 captain reported multiple dispatch errors on flight including no alternate and missing data.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1517261 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201802 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Citation Latitude (C680A) |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 135 |
| Flight Phase | Taxi |
| Route In Use | Other WATRS |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain Pilot Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Multiengine |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter Fuel Issue |
Narrative:
Dispatched to ZZZZ. Last leg of a 7.4 block hour day. Flew over 19 hours in the 3 previous days. Arly shows on 2 of 3 previous days. Landed with approximately 3000 pounds of fuel. No land alternate was filed which is a requirement per dispatch. Weather at ZZZZ was VFR. We did not have enough fuel on landing to proceed anywhere but [destination airport]. Leg one was a ferry to pick up 3 passengers for a trip to ZZZZ1. I called international dispatch 3 times prior to the leg. Call 1 was to make sure they used the 'extended drift down' information on the release. This feature provides more info on equal time point (etp). Call 2 was to inform them the release had no etp information at all. Call 3 was to inform dispatch they used the wrong airports to compute our etp's. Common sense tells me I need enough fuel to make the mainland if unable to make it into ZZZZ. I overlooked not having an alternate on the flight release. Add a alternate requirement into ZZZZ in the western atlantic route system (watrs) section of the fom. Also dispatch should have some type of function that will not let this happen. Crews and perhaps dispatch need more training on these issues.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Citation C680 Captain reported multiple Dispatch errors on flight including no alternate and missing data.
Narrative: Dispatched to ZZZZ. Last leg of a 7.4 block hour day. Flew over 19 hours in the 3 previous days. arly shows on 2 of 3 previous days. Landed with approximately 3000 pounds of fuel. No land alternate was filed which is a requirement per dispatch. Weather at ZZZZ was VFR. We did not have enough fuel on landing to proceed anywhere but [destination airport]. Leg one was a ferry to pick up 3 passengers for a trip to ZZZZ1. I called international dispatch 3 times prior to the leg. Call 1 was to make sure they used the 'extended drift down' information on the release. This feature provides more info on Equal Time Point (ETP). Call 2 was to inform them the release had no ETP information at all. Call 3 was to inform dispatch they used the wrong airports to compute our ETP's. Common sense tells me I need enough fuel to make the mainland if unable to make it into ZZZZ. I overlooked not having an alternate on the Flight release. Add a alternate requirement into ZZZZ in the Western Atlantic Route System (WATRS) section of the FOM. Also dispatch should have some type of function that will not let this happen. Crews and perhaps dispatch need more training on these issues.
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.