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Q400 first officer reports receiving a low altitude warning from ATC during an ILS approach. The field elevation had been set into the MCP prior to the autopilot capturing the assigned altitude or the glideslope.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1189517 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201407 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0001-0600 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Q400 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Initial Approach |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Component | |
| Aircraft Component | MCP |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | First Officer Pilot Flying |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT |
Narrative:
On ILS; appr was pushed for ILS; glideslope alive and localizer alive. Put in field elevation and did ILS. ATC called for low altitude alert. We doubled check altimeter setting and then corrected. If we had do the approach over again we would have leveled off first then put in field elevation.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Q400 First Officer reports receiving a low altitude warning from ATC during an ILS approach. The field elevation had been set into the MCP prior to the autopilot capturing the assigned altitude or the glideslope.
Narrative: On ILS; APPR was pushed for ILS; glideslope alive and LOC alive. Put in field elevation and did ILS. ATC called for low altitude alert. We doubled check altimeter setting and then corrected. If we had do the approach over again we would have leveled off first then put in field elevation.
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.