Cessna 210 Centurion / Turbo Centurion 210C; 210D
Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 22; Flight Crew Total 3000; Flight Crew Type 1000
Human-Machine Interface; Situational Awareness; Confusion
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Deviation - Track / Heading All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance
Air Traffic Control Issued Advisory / Alert; Flight Crew Overcame Equipment Problem; Flight Crew Became Reoriented
Aircraft; Human Factors
I used ForeFlight on my iPad to file and brief an IFR flight plan from Great Falls to Springbank airport (west of Calgary). However; when I got in the airplane to program the route into my airplane's GPS I failed to input one waypoint; namely; Cutbank.As I was flying north from Great Falls; my airplane's zoomed-in GPS showed me on the centerline of my route; but my iPad showed me getting more and more to the right of course. The controller queried me as to whether I was heading straight to Lethbridge instead of to Cutbank; and that was when I realized my mistake. I was heading to Lethbridge; because I had omitted inputting the Cutbank waypoint. Lesson one: Be sure to double-check when programming the route from the listing on the iPad to the airplane's GPS. Lesson two: Believe the VOR when it shows you off the airway.
A Cessna Turbo 210 pilot suffered a track deviation when he misprogrammed his IFR route into the aircraft's GPS based navigation system. ATC advised of the deviations and the reporter corrected the error.