Narrative:

Crew flew the DIRTY3 arrival into atl. In the vicinity of the reaks intersection we were given a turn to heading 180 and descend to 4;000 feet; as a base leg for the ILS 8L. We were IMC; but knew we were following another aircraft about 4 miles ahead per the TCAS display. ATC instructed us to turn heading 120 to intercept the final; maintain 190 knots to schel (the final approach fix) and we were cleared for the ILS 8L. Upon joining the ILS; ATC advised we were following a 757; caution wake turbulence. No sooner had we acknowledged the transmission; than the aircraft began an uncontrolled anti-clockwise roll to 60 degrees angles of bank. As the pilot flying I input full control to the right to counteract the roll; initially this had no effect. Upon exiting the wake the aircraft made a rapid correction to level flight. We advised ATC of the encounter; at this point we were below the cloud bases and VMC. We slowed the aircraft to increase distance and remained above the glide path to a landing without further incident. We were 3 miles behind the 757 at the time of the encounter. Flight attendants were seated at the time of the upset. There were no injuries to the crew or passengers. It was a quiet [weekend] morning into atlanta; there was very little traffic arriving; probably no reason to turn us that close to a 757.I am submitting this to provide feedback to ATC. The conditions at atlanta were very quiet; low workload and few aircraft arriving. I think ATC turned us too close behind an aircraft with heavy wake turbulence characteristics; the warning from ATC sounded like an afterthought. Keeping our aircraft fast at 190 kts with the 757 slowing to final approach speed created a situation that did not need to exist. I would just like this report shared with the appropriate ATC agency. I did not ask the first officer to submit a report; as there were no violations.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An ERJ-170 Captain reported encountering wake turbulence in trail of a B757 on approach to ATL that resulted in an 'uncontrolled...roll to 60 degrees angle of bank'.

Narrative: Crew flew the DIRTY3 arrival into ATL. In the vicinity of the REAKS intersection we were given a turn to heading 180 and descend to 4;000 feet; as a base leg for the ILS 8L. We were IMC; but knew we were following another aircraft about 4 miles ahead per the TCAS display. ATC instructed us to turn heading 120 to intercept the final; maintain 190 knots to SCHEL (the final approach fix) and we were cleared for the ILS 8L. Upon joining the ILS; ATC advised we were following a 757; caution wake turbulence. No sooner had we acknowledged the transmission; than the aircraft began an uncontrolled anti-clockwise roll to 60 degrees angles of bank. As the pilot flying I input full control to the right to counteract the roll; initially this had no effect. Upon exiting the wake the aircraft made a rapid correction to level flight. We advised ATC of the encounter; at this point we were below the cloud bases and VMC. We slowed the aircraft to increase distance and remained above the glide path to a landing without further incident. We were 3 miles behind the 757 at the time of the encounter. Flight attendants were seated at the time of the upset. There were no injuries to the crew or passengers. It was a quiet [weekend] morning into Atlanta; there was very little traffic arriving; probably no reason to turn us that close to a 757.I am submitting this to provide feedback to ATC. The conditions at Atlanta were very quiet; low workload and few aircraft arriving. I think ATC turned us too close behind an aircraft with heavy wake turbulence characteristics; the warning from ATC sounded like an afterthought. Keeping our aircraft fast at 190 kts with the 757 slowing to final approach speed created a situation that did not need to exist. I would just like this report shared with the appropriate ATC agency. I did not ask the First Officer to submit a report; as there were no violations.

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