Originally Posted by
Cleared4appch
Yea. The reason I suspect it wasn’t checked on lineup is because there’s a surprising number of captains at my regional that don’t seem to care for checking runway heading. It irritates me. I’ve even had a few sim instructors that seem to want to skip over that. A lot of them seemed annoyed that’s it on the checklist and I’ve always wondered why they think it’s ’redundant’ checklist verbiage. It’s not. If that heading isn’t checked on lineup it will come back to bite the crew in the rear end as it did here. Another example is departing in a mountainous area at night or in IMC and there’s an engine failure. Now they can’t climb as quickly and they may be heading straight for a mountain on an incorrect heading. It won’t seem so ‘pointless’ to these guys then.
Was gonna say the odds of an IRS RJ9 having headings being off any significance are very, very slim. AHARS is more common for the headings to be off between DG's , thus the reason for EFIS COMP MON all the time , but Minny is not a magnetic anomaly runway airport so they shouldn't have had any problem. I agree with you for sure to always check headings when lined up for TO but I think they just brain farted and totally went the wrong way. The controllers didn't seem over worked up about it which seemed weird. In NY and ATL , ATC would be yelling for sure 😂