Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Communication Breakdown; Confusion; Situational Awareness; Human-Machine Interface
ATC Issue All Types
General None Reported / Taken
Human Factors; Procedure
This is a safety of flight issue that MIA ATC is very nonchalant about. As you can see on the attachment [not provided] two different departures are assigned on the PDC. Unless things have changed I thought a PDC change would be highlighted with asterisk on each side of a new assigned routing. This procedure MIA uses is a violation waiting to happen. Very dangerous procedure. In case the attachment is unreadable; HITAG and WINCO were the two assigned departures.MIA [must be made to] comply with standard PDC procedures like the rest of the country.
A DC-10 Captain took exception to the manner in which PDC clearances are formatted in MIA; citing the 'assignment' of two different SIDs on the PDC for their flight.