SR22
Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Communication Breakdown; Confusion; Situational Awareness
ATC Issue All Types; Deviation - Track / Heading All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT
Air Traffic Control Provided Assistance; Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance; Air Traffic Control Issued Advisory / Alert; Flight Crew Became Reoriented
Procedure; Chart Or Publication; Airspace Structure; Human Factors
I was working departure sectors in a North flow. [A Cirrus] departed and by the time he checked in on my frequency; I observed what looked like a turn to the east. I asked him to verify heading 340 and he said 'negative; I am in a right turn to [next point] at 5000 feet. I asked the aircraft if he could provide his own terrain obstruction clearance below 10000 feet because he was already in higher MVA's (Minimum vectoring Altitudes) he replied that he could. I turned him away from the mountains and gave him a low altitude alert. I then asked him one more time to verify he had the terrain in sight. The pilot responded in the positive. His track wasn't getting him away from the terrain as fast as I would have liked so I turned him further to the East. I'm not really sure what to recommend. The pilot was issued a heading from the tower but never read it back.
A Departure Controller reported an aircraft departed on the wrong heading and was below the Minimum Vectoring Altitude.