PA-44 Seminole/Turbo Seminole
Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Situational Awareness; Confusion
ATC Issue All Types; Conflict Airborne Conflict
General None Reported / Taken
Human Factors
I was working STN/STV with a couple departures and practice approaches into SFB. A PA-44 was doing practice approaches to Runway 9L; when he went missed; I noticed he was northwest bound. I called SFB and questioned what he was doing; they said he was turning to HDG 050. That put him in my downwind but I had no traffic. I had a SR20 depart a few minutes before that also on a bad heading. So after I identified the PA-44; an A330 was calling. I told the A330 to 'ident' and was looking for the FLM/CIC to have them call the Tower to see what was going on up there. When the FLM came over he said are you ok with those two; I looked and the A330 was turning; I tried to turn him back but then I decided west was better and went back to the west. Separation was lost between the A330 and the PA-44. The A330 checked in turning to a heading of 280 and I didn't hear it. I was also advised by FLM that the Tower assigned the A330 a 280 heading. Recommendation; I should have heard the check-in turning to a 280 heading; that was when I was calling for the FLM. Tower has to be careful with headings.
I cleared an A330 for takeoff; however I issued the reciprocal heading 280 (which is for a West runway operation) instead of heading 080; which was the east runway operation we were on. The aircraft turned and lost separation. Recommendation; listen more carefully to the clearance issued; to ensure the correct heading is issued.
F11 Controller described a conflict event when failing to hear the pilots initial heading report which was issued in error by the SFB Controller.