Corporate jet flight crew failed to note that the word 'worth' in their pre departure clearance clea...

Attributes
ACN	836263
Time
Date	200905
Local Time Of Day	0001-0600
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Small Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Climb
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Not Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Person 2
Function	Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Track / Heading All Types

Narrative:

I picked up my clearance via pre departure clearance; which was; cleared as filed. I actually scanned right over the departure because it read dal worth and I thought that meant the clearance came through center. The sic asked me if we had a departure out of dal and I confidently said no. We received clearance for takeoff and when airborne were given a heading toward a fix on the worth departure and told to navigate direct to that fix. I told the controller that we weren't given the departure on the pre departure clearance and he asked if our company had filed the flight plan using the departure; and I said yes. We added the departure and flew direct to the assigned fix; and continued the flight normally. During that departure from dal we remained in the ATC designated airspace at all times via radar vectors through ATC. I believe that the dal worth portion (the first words in the clearance) contributed to my error in misreading it. Perhaps a change in the departures' name may result in less confusion or errors.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Corporate jet flight crew failed to note that the word 'worth' in their PDC clearance referred to the WORTH RNAV SID; not to the worth as in Dallas; Fort Worth. Track deviation resulted until Departure Controller corrected the error.

Narrative: I picked up my clearance via PDC; which was; cleared as filed. I actually scanned right over the departure because it read DAL WORTH and I thought that meant the clearance came through Center. The SIC asked me if we had a departure out of DAL and I confidently said no. We received clearance for takeoff and when airborne were given a heading toward a fix on the WORTH departure and told to navigate direct to that fix. I told the Controller that we weren't given the departure on the PDC and he asked if our company had filed the flight plan using the departure; and I said yes. We added the departure and flew direct to the assigned fix; and continued the flight normally. During that departure from DAL we remained in the ATC designated airspace at all times via radar vectors through ATC. I believe that the DAL WORTH portion (the first words in the clearance) contributed to my error in misreading it. Perhaps a change in the departures' name may result in less confusion or errors.

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.

Corporate jet flight crew failed to note that the word 'worth' in their pre departure clearance clearance referred to the worth RNAV SID; not to the worth as in dallas; fort worth. Track deviation resulted until departure controller corrected the error.