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A crj flight crew transposed two letters in their destination airport identifier resulting in a modest track deviation noted by ATC.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 925706 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201012 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZDC.ARTCC |
| State Reference | VA |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Regional Jet 200 ER/LR (CRJ200) |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Cruise |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Component | |
| Aircraft Component | FMS/FMC |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain Pilot Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Person 2 | |
| Function | First Officer Pilot Not Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Commercial |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Track / Heading All Types |
Narrative:
I had incorrectly put pvg in the FMS instead of pgv. These airports are 80 miles apart as the crow flies but only 20 miles apart from meril. We were given direct pgv before meril and we were inputting the landing info into our FMS for our destination and found our error. ATC called us at just about the same time and told us an additional 10 degrees right for direct pgv and we agreed with them.both of us saw what our eyes wanted to see. We thought we were seeing pgv and with these two airports being so close in proximity it did not seem incorrect as some other FMS finger punching mistakes that sometimes show 2;000 mile errors. Complacency got me and I need to be more diligent in my entries in the FMS.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A CRJ flight crew transposed two letters in their destination airport identifier resulting in a modest track deviation noted by ATC.
Narrative: I had incorrectly put PVG in the FMS instead of PGV. These airports are 80 miles apart as the crow flies but only 20 miles apart from MERIL. We were given direct PGV before MERIL and we were inputting the landing info into our FMS for our destination and found our error. ATC called us at just about the same time and told us an additional 10 degrees right for direct PGV and we agreed with them.Both of us saw what our eyes wanted to see. We thought we were seeing PGV and with these two airports being so close in proximity it did not seem incorrect as some other FMS finger punching mistakes that sometimes show 2;000 mile errors. Complacency got me and I need to be more diligent in my entries in the FMS.
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.