Air taxi flight crew reported a rapid descent to avoid traffic that resulted in a low altitude situa...

Attributes
ACN	1495801
Time
Date	201711
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Small Transport Low Wing 2 Turboprop Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 135
Flight Phase	Cruise
Flight Plan	VFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Commercial
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 150 Flight Crew Total 1600 Flight Crew Type 400
Person 2
Function	Pilot Not Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Total 760
Events
Anomaly	Conflict Airborne Conflict Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Other / Unknown Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT
Miss Distance	Horizontal 2000 Vertical 700

Narrative:

Me and my copilot were flying VFR northbound. I got a traffic advisory on my GPS and saw the advised traffic southbound along the coastline in front of me at the same approximate altitude. I then deviated to a lower altitude. I was focused on the deviation from the traffic and I lost altitude and went to around 100 ft over the water. Once I felt we were safe and clear from the southbound traffic I climbed back up to our altitude that we were originally cruising at.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air taxi flight crew reported a rapid descent to avoid traffic that resulted in a low altitude situation.

Narrative: Me and my copilot were flying VFR northbound. I got a Traffic Advisory on my GPS and saw the advised traffic southbound along the coastline in front of me at the same approximate altitude. I then deviated to a lower altitude. I was focused on the deviation from the traffic and I lost altitude and went to around 100 ft over the water. Once I felt we were safe and clear from the southbound traffic I climbed back up to our altitude that we were originally cruising at.

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.