Flight crew flying visual approach into rst went below 1000 feet AGL about 5 miles out. They correct...

Attributes
ACN	1309925
Time
Date	201511
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	RST.Airport
State Reference	MN
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Medium Large Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Person 2
Function	Pilot Not Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

Narrative:

We were cleared for the visual 20 about 10 miles out. I entered downwind at 3000 ft at flaps 20 at 180 knots. We had a crosswind at 52 knots pushing us out a little bit. I turned base around four miles out. I thought I was a little far out so I delayed adding more drag gear or flaps. But I did set in 2000 ft in the altitude alerted. As I descended down I just forgot the field elevation was over 1300 ft. I noticed we were getting low passing 1100 ft so I stopped the descent which was at 940 ft. I immediately climbed back to 1200 ft and configured the aircraft for landing gear down flaps 30. Then flaps 45. We were still 4-5miles out turning final and established for landing at 1000 ft so there was no need for a go around. The aircraft was only below a 1000 ft for no more then 20-30 seconds; if that. I noticed the altitude getting low and corrected immediately. I was not thinking of field elevation when I set 2000 ft in the altitude alerted. First officer was the pilot monitoring and was looking for the obstacle that was out about 5 miles ahead of us.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Flight crew flying visual approach into RST went below 1000 feet AGL about 5 miles out. They corrected back to profile and completed a normal landing.

Narrative: We were cleared for the visual 20 about 10 miles out. I entered downwind at 3000 ft at flaps 20 at 180 knots. We had a crosswind at 52 knots pushing us out a little bit. I turned base around four miles out. I thought I was a little far out so I delayed adding more drag gear or flaps. But I did set in 2000 Ft in the altitude alerted. As I descended down I just forgot the field elevation was over 1300 ft. I noticed we were getting low passing 1100 ft so I stopped the descent which was at 940 ft. I immediately climbed back to 1200 ft and configured the aircraft for landing gear down flaps 30. Then flaps 45. We were still 4-5miles out turning final and established for landing at 1000 ft so there was no need for a go around. The aircraft was only below a 1000 ft for no more then 20-30 seconds; if that. I noticed the altitude getting low and corrected immediately. I was not thinking of field elevation when I set 2000 Ft in the altitude alerted. First Officer was the pilot monitoring and was looking for the obstacle that was out about 5 miles ahead of us.

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.

Flight crew flying visual approach into rst went below 1000 feet AGL about 5 miles out. They corrected back to profile and completed a normal landing.