Airbus flight crew failed to note the change in their departure routing clearance and suffered a tra...

Attributes
ACN	860339
Time
Date	200911
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	LFPG.Airport
State Reference	FO
Environment
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Airbus Industrie Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	FMS/FMC
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Track / Heading All Types

Narrative:

Just before pushback; we were given a departure routing different from the one on our flight plan. I entered the departure route that I heard and reviewed it with my copilot. We were in agreement that the departure agreed with that in the FMS. On departure; we realized the routing I had heard and the routing ATC had meant were different. By the time we corrected our error; we had deviated approx. 3-5 miles. Because of my limited ability to hear vowels in french; I chose a similar sounding (to me) departure. Also; we only checked the departure change and did not see the route discontinuity down the road. It was in flight; as we expanded the nav display range; that we saw the route discontinuity and hence was what prompted our search for our error.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Airbus flight crew failed to note the change in their departure routing clearance and suffered a track error after takeoff. Cite difficulty in understanding vowel distinctions when pronounced by the French Clearance Delivery personnel.

Narrative: Just before pushback; we were given a departure routing different from the one on our flight plan. I entered the departure route that I heard and reviewed it with my Copilot. We were in agreement that the departure agreed with that in the FMS. On departure; we realized the routing I had heard and the routing ATC had meant were different. By the time we corrected our error; we had deviated approx. 3-5 miles. Because of my limited ability to hear vowels in French; I chose a similar sounding (to me) departure. Also; we only checked the departure change and did not see the route discontinuity down the road. It was in flight; as we expanded the nav display range; that we saw the route discontinuity and hence was what prompted our search for our error.

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.

Airbus flight crew failed to note the change in their departure routing clearance and suffered a track error after takeoff. Cite difficulty in understanding vowel distinctions when pronounced by the french clearance delivery personnel.