Bell Helicopter Textron Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Crew Commercial
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 120; Flight Crew Total 14750; Flight Crew Type 5000
Communication Breakdown; Confusion; Situational Awareness
ATC Issue All Types; Conflict Ground Conflict; Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Ground Incursion Taxiway
Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Human Factors; Procedure; Airport
I was on the ground holding on Taxiway Charlie [short of] Foxtrot for landing traffic. The landing TBM then exited Runway 23R at Charlie; and we were now facing one another [in opposite directions on Foxtrot].The Controller had told me that the TBM would then make a right turn on Foxtrot; that I was cleared for takeoff and to cross 23R and avoid the TBM. However; the TBM; in fact; made a left turn on Foxtrot. I lifted off; rotated 30 degrees to the right; pulled power and started to move forward. As I was watching the Torque meter I glanced off to the left and saw the TBM was turning towards me [instead of away from me] on Foxtrot. I quickly applied more power to exit the area.The Controller mixed up the instructions by saying that the TBM was going to make a RIGHT turn onto Foxtrot; which made sense as all the General Aviation terminals are located to the Northeast off of Foxtrot.
An ATC miscommunication as to the landing traffic's direction of taxi after landing resulted in a conflict with a departing helicopter piloting expecting the landing aircraft to turn away rather than toward his direction of takeoff.