Skynight 320
Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Commercial
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 18.7; Flight Crew Total 2150; Flight Crew Type 1291.3
Training / Qualification; Situational Awareness; Human-Machine Interface; Confusion; Communication Breakdown
Deviation - Altitude Overshoot; Deviation - Track / Heading All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance
Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance
Airport; Human Factors; Chart Or Publication
My clearance was via the RUUDY 4 Departure; radar vectors SBJ; thence... I wasn't given an initial heading or altitude; I briefly looked over the SID; but not close enough to realize there was a route with altitudes for the first few fixes. I had assumed; probably out of habit; and was expecting radar vectors to SBJ as soon as I contacted New York Departure. After departing and contacting New York they didn't give me a heading or altitude so I continued on the runway heading of 240; this put me left of the course to WENTZ and TASCA. I believe I also climbed past the SID altitude; I was then cleared to a higher altitude but I had already gone past 2;000 FT which the SID said to cross TASCA at. I think the confusion arose out of the terminology in the clearance; by using the words 'Radar Vectors' I incorrectly thought I didn't need to fly to any fixes in the SID; but would be given a heading to the initial fix of SBJ VOR.
A Cessna 320 pilot; cleared to depart TEB via the RUUDY RNAV SID radar vectors to SBJ; instead took off and flew runway heading rather than the SID track and climbed at will.