WAKE TURB ENCOUNTER.

1995-02 · NASA ASRS report 300962

Date: 1995-02 · Aircraft: Brasilia EMB-120 All Series

Anomalies: inflight-event-encounter-loss-of-aircraft-control|inflight-event-encounter-other-unknown

Synopsis

WAKE TURB ENCOUNTER.

Narrative

WX CLR VMC; WE WERE TALKING WITH A BUSY MIAMI APCH CTL AND WERE APPROX 15 NM NE OF MIA INTL DSNDING OUT OF 10000 FT MSL. THERE WERE SEVERAL OTHER ACFT ALSO INBOUND TO MIA; AS THIS IS A BUSY TIME. WE WERE GIVEN A VECTOR TO FLY HDG OF APPROX 150 DEGS TO FOLLOW TFC. AT THAT TIME WE ENCOUNTERED MODERATE WAKE TURB FOR APPROX 5-10 SECONDS. AT NO TIME WAS CTL OF THE ACFT LOST; AND ALL IT DID WAS STARTLE THE PAX AND FLT ATTENDANT. I THEN LOOKED OVER AND SAW A B767 APPROX 10 NM AHEAD; AND IT WOULD APPEAR THAT WE HAD FLOWN THROUGH ITS WAKE. BEING SO FAR AHEAD IT IS HARD TO VISUALIZE AN ACFT'S WAKE; AS OPPOSED TO BEING RIGHT BEHIND ON A STRAIGHT IN APCH. I INFORMED APCH OF THE OCCURRENCE; AND WE STAYED HIGH ON THE SUBSEQUENT APCH TO AVOID FURTHER ENCOUNTERS. THIS VERY INCIDENT HAS HAPPENED TO ME AT LEAST 4 OTHER TIMES AT THE SAME PLACE IN THE PAST. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH REPORTER REVEALED THE FOLLOWING: RPTR WAS MOST ANXIOUS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE WAKE TURB INCIDENT CALLBACK QUESTIONNAIRE. HE WAS VERY MUCH BOTHERED BY THE 40 DEG ROLL AND THE 200 FT LOSS OF ALT. HE WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE THE TRACON CTLRS TO BE TRAINED IN WAKE TURB AVOIDANCE. FELT THEY COULD RECOGNIZE THE HIGH POSSIBILITY OF WAKE DEVELOPMENT BY THE WIND CONDITION AND THE ACFT BEING FLOWN IN THE AREA. RPTR FEELS ATC COULD DO MORE IN RECOGNIZING THE POTENTIAL FOR WAKE TURB. ALSO; HE WANTS ATC CTLRS TO BE ONBOARD ACFT WHEN THEY ENCOUNTER WAKE TURB SO THEY WILL KNOW WHAT IT IS A FLC MEMBER FEELS WHEN AN ACFT ENCOUNTERS THE WAKE.

Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.

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