A single piloted aircraft was issued a BLUBELL2 arrival direct to cowzz intersection arriving at tme...

Narrative:

Course may have drifted when going from before cowzz intersection on the Blubell2 arrival to the initial fix on the approach into tme houston executive. Approach issued instruction to proceed direct to cowzz on the Blubell2 arrival. Initial problem was could not find the Blubell2 arrival on the GPS. Thought that was my mistake. Had the paper charts and looked up the intersection and entered it manually in the GPS and then proceeded to cowzz intersection. Proceeded to approach and landed without issues. Upon further research; in reviewing paper approach plates; I determined that the Bluebell2 arrival was not identified as an arrival for tme. This is why the arrival was not in the GPS for the approach to tme. Houston has many arrivals into the houston area. The controller probably just inadvertently issued the arrival by mistake. This did cause an increased workload for maybe 1 minute or 2 during the transition. I was able to manually enter direct to the fix and proceed to the approach. I have now learned that I should be more versed on which arrivals are specified for an airport. The arrival I anticipated was not issued; perhaps I should have spoken up. Lesson learned.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A single piloted aircraft was issued a BLUBELL2 ARRIVAL direct to COWZZ intersection arriving at TME. The Reporter discovered that his GPS did not include the BLUBELL2 because it did not serve TME.

Narrative: Course may have drifted when going from before COWZZ Intersection on the Blubell2 arrival to the initial fix on the approach into TME Houston Executive. Approach issued instruction to proceed direct to COWZZ on the Blubell2 Arrival. Initial problem was could not find the Blubell2 arrival on the GPS. Thought that was my mistake. Had the paper charts and looked up the intersection and entered it manually in the GPS and then proceeded to COWZZ Intersection. Proceeded to approach and landed without issues. Upon further research; in reviewing paper approach plates; I determined that the Bluebell2 Arrival was not identified as an arrival for TME. This is why the arrival was not in the GPS for the approach to TME. Houston has many arrivals into the Houston area. The Controller probably just inadvertently issued the arrival by mistake. This did cause an increased workload for maybe 1 minute or 2 during the transition. I was able to manually enter direct to the fix and proceed to the approach. I have now learned that I should be more versed on which arrivals are specified for an airport. The arrival I anticipated was not issued; perhaps I should have spoken up. Lesson learned.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.

Attributes
ACN	827705
Time
Date	200903
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	TME.Airport
State Reference	TX
Environment
Flight Conditions	IMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	M-20 E Super 21
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Single Pilot Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Commercial
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 25 Flight Crew Total 1200 Flight Crew Type 1000
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Procedural Clearance

A single piloted aircraft was issued a BLUBELL2 arrival direct to cowzz intersection arriving at tme. The reporter discovered that his GPS did not include the BLUBELL2 because it did not serve tme.