Air carrier captain reports sighting a drone pass 100-200 feet off the left wing during the approach...

Attributes
ACN	1277222
Time
Date	201507
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	CLT.Airport
State Reference	NC
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	UAV - Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle
Route In Use	None
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Pilot Not Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Conflict NMAC
Miss Distance	Horizontal 150 Vertical 0

Narrative:

We were on a visual approach to runway 23 at charlotte; just inside lecar. First officer (first officer) was the pilot flying. I noticed an object outside my left side window. At first I figured it was a balloon or a bird. I realized it was a drone; maroon and silver in color; and I would estimate its distance from our plane horizontally at between 100-200 feet. First officer says he looked at the radio altimeter and we were at 1250 feet AGL at the time of sighting. We were following the glide path down for runway 23 and we were on centerline of the localizer. We reported the sighting to clt tower. Upon landing we were given a phone number to call to give more information on the details we saw.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air carrier Captain reports sighting a drone pass 100-200 feet off the left wing during the approach to CLT at 1;250 feet AGL.

Narrative: We were on a visual approach to runway 23 at Charlotte; just inside LECAR. First Officer (FO) was the Pilot flying. I noticed an object outside my left side window. At first I figured it was a balloon or a bird. I realized it was a drone; maroon and silver in color; and I would estimate its distance from our plane horizontally at between 100-200 feet. FO says he looked at the Radio Altimeter and we were at 1250 feet AGL at the time of sighting. We were following the glide path down for runway 23 and we were on centerline of the localizer. We reported the sighting to CLT tower. Upon landing we were given a phone number to call to give more information on the details we saw.

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.

Air carrier captain reports sighting a drone pass 100-200 feet off the left wing during the approach to clt at 1;250 feet AGL.