<< >> NASA ASRS Report 1299372, September 2015

A corporate pilot and the aircraft's owner were provided a low altitude alert from ATC. The pilot suspects that it was due to a high descent rate.

Attributes
ACN	1299372
Time
Date	201509
Local Time Of Day	0001-0600
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.TRACON
State Reference	US
Environment
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Citationjet (C525/C526) - CJ I / II / III / IV
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 75 Flight Crew Total 17700 Flight Crew Type 1500
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

Narrative:

I had one of the aircraft owners in the cockpit and he was actually flying the airplane. We were on base to final turn on a visual approach. We had been descending at a fairly high rate about 1;500-2;000 FPM. We were leveling off at about 1;500 feet AGL when ATC notified us of a low altitude alert. I suspect it was caused by the high descent rate. There was no danger as we were already correcting.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A corporate pilot and the aircraft's owner were provided a low altitude alert from ATC. The Pilot suspects that it was due to a high descent rate.

Narrative: I had one of the aircraft owners in the cockpit and he was actually flying the airplane. We were on base to final turn on a visual approach. We had been descending at a fairly high rate about 1;500-2;000 FPM. We were leveling off at about 1;500 feet AGL when ATC notified us of a low altitude alert. I suspect it was caused by the high descent rate. There was no danger as we were already correcting.

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.