Narrative:

We were cleared by ATC to fly the oakland coastal 5 departure. Both crew members reviewed the departure procedure prior to taxi. It was even discussed that I would not engage heading mode until after 3000 ft. Takeoff proceeded normally and at 3000 ft I engaged heading mode and flew the aircraft on a 200 heading. At that time ATC changed our clearance altitude to 9000 ft from 13000. We continued on a 200 degree heading. While climbing through 7000 ft I noticed a target on our TCAS rapidly closing in. We were then issued instructions by ATC to execute an immediate right turn. I leveled the aircraft and did a hard bank to the right to avoid a possible incursion. (No incursion was noted by ATC or TCAS). The issue is; on both commercial and government plates; the visual depiction shows a turn at 3000 ft to a heading of 200 degrees. This however is a lost comm procedure. It is not until you read the text description that you realize that the visual depiction is misleading and not in accordance with the normal departure. On the government plates you have to even go to page two to read the normal procedure. Both the commercial and government charts need to be revised in a fashion that lost comm procedures are not confused with normal procedures. In addition the tower at oak needs to emphasize to fly runway heading prior to takeoff roll.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: LJ60 Captain departing OAK reports mistaking the lost comm procedure for the normal departure procedure. Reporter turned to 200 degree heading at 3000 FT much to the chagrin of an NCT Controller.

Narrative: We were cleared by ATC to fly the Oakland Coastal 5 departure. Both crew members reviewed the Departure Procedure prior to taxi. It was even discussed that I would not engage heading mode until after 3000 FT. Takeoff proceeded normally and at 3000 FT I engaged Heading Mode and flew the aircraft on a 200 heading. At that time ATC changed our clearance altitude to 9000 FT from 13000. We continued on a 200 degree heading. While climbing through 7000 FT I noticed a target on our TCAS rapidly closing in. We were then issued instructions by ATC to execute an immediate right turn. I leveled the aircraft and did a hard bank to the right to avoid a possible incursion. (No incursion was noted by ATC or TCAS). The issue is; on both commercial and government plates; the visual depiction shows a turn at 3000 FT to a heading of 200 degrees. This however is a lost comm procedure. It is not until you read the text description that you realize that the visual depiction is misleading and not in accordance with the normal departure. On the government plates you have to even go to page two to read the normal procedure. Both the commercial and government charts need to be revised in a fashion that lost comm procedures are not confused with normal procedures. In addition the Tower at OAK needs to emphasize to fly runway heading prior to takeoff roll.

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.