<< >> NASA ASRS Report 1147226, January 2014

A BE300 flight crew; cleared for a visual approach to bwi descended prematurely triggering a low altitude alert from the tower. The flight crew climbed to a safer altitude and completed their approach and landing.

Attributes
ACN	1147226
Time
Date	201401
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	BWI.Airport
State Reference	MD
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Dusk
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Super King Air 300
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 20 Flight Crew Total 4700 Flight Crew Type 1000
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Altitude Excursion From Assigned Altitude Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

Narrative:

We had announced airfield in sight and were cleared for the visual and frequency changed to tower. When descending down to traffic pattern altitude the tower advised they were detecting an altitude alert. The crew maintained visual clearance of all obstacles but initiated the climb to higher altitude (2;000 MSL) to remedy the alert. We later discussed maintaining last assigned altitude until closer to the airport on subsequent flights to preclude altitude alerts.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A BE300 flight crew; cleared for a visual approach to BWI descended prematurely triggering a low altitude alert from the Tower. The flight crew climbed to a safer altitude and completed their approach and landing.

Narrative: We had announced airfield in sight and were cleared for the visual and frequency changed to Tower. When descending down to traffic pattern altitude the Tower advised they were detecting an altitude alert. The crew maintained visual clearance of all obstacles but initiated the climb to higher altitude (2;000 MSL) to remedy the alert. We later discussed maintaining last assigned altitude until closer to the airport on subsequent flights to preclude altitude alerts.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.