On a visual approach to runway 19 at msy the recently qualified first officer of a crj-700 descended...

Attributes
ACN	1192800
Time
Date	201407
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	MSY.Airport
State Reference	LA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Regional Jet 700 ER/LR (CRJ700)
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 200 Flight Crew Total 10200 Flight Crew Type 6500
Events
Anomaly	Airspace Violation All Types Deviation - Altitude Excursion From Assigned Altitude Deviation - Procedural Clearance Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

Narrative:

We were flying a visual approach to runway 19 at msy; new orleans. We had a localizer only; no glideslope. The first officer; who had just finished IOE; was flying. We were about 10 or 15 miles north of the airport; going straight in for runway 19 on a visual approach; descending out of around 4;000 ft. The first officer selected about 1700 FPM down on the vertical speed selector. I noticed we were going to be low and told him to shallow out the descent. He delayed; so passing through about 2;000 ft I reached up and selected myself a 100 FPM descent and told him what I was doing and that we were too low and needed to level off. Shortly after this; ATC advised we had a low altitude alert. We were at about 1;400 MSL over lake ponchartrain and still 5 to 10 miles out from landing. I believe we were below the class B airspace. I advised ATC we were correcting and had leveled off. The rest of the flight and landing was uneventful.I should have monitored the descent more closely.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: On a visual approach to Runway 19 at MSY the recently qualified First Officer of a CRJ-700 descended early and too aggressively triggering a low altitude alert from ATC.

Narrative: We were flying a Visual Approach to Runway 19 at MSY; New Orleans. We had a localizer only; no glideslope. The First Officer; who had just finished IOE; was flying. We were about 10 or 15 miles north of the airport; going straight in for Runway 19 on a visual approach; descending out of around 4;000 FT. The First Officer selected about 1700 FPM down on the vertical speed selector. I noticed we were going to be low and told him to shallow out the descent. He delayed; so passing through about 2;000 FT I reached up and selected myself a 100 FPM descent and told him what I was doing and that we were too low and needed to level off. Shortly after this; ATC advised we had a low altitude alert. We were at about 1;400 MSL over Lake Ponchartrain and still 5 to 10 miles out from landing. I believe we were below the Class B airspace. I advised ATC we were correcting and had leveled off. The rest of the flight and landing was uneventful.I should have monitored the descent more closely.

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On a visual approach to runway 19 at msy the recently qualified first officer of a crj-700 descended early and too aggressively triggering a low altitude alert from ATC.