Emb first officer reported encountering wake turbulence from a preceding airbus on approach to clt.

Attributes
ACN	1670639
Time
Date	201904
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	CLT.Airport
State Reference	NC
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Embraer Jet Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	Airbus Industrie Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 150 Flight Crew Total 8000 Flight Crew Type 550
Events
Anomaly	Inflight Event / Encounter Wake Vortex Encounter

Narrative:

While on an approx. 10-15 visual final for runway 18R at 5000' ATC vectored an airbus inside of our course for the visual 18R. Shortly thereafter the aircraft sharply rolled left (approx 60 deg bank) and pitched down. This action caused the autopilot to fail. At the time I was getting ready to disengage the autopilot and hand fly the remainder of the approach. My hands were very close to all of the controls in preparation to hand fly. Once the event occurred I added correctional aileron and pitched up adding thrust. After a second or so we returned to straight and level flight. The captain advised ATC immediately of the event to which they seemed surprised and we continued the visual approach. Once on the ground the captain advised the flight attendant and passengers of the cause of the turbulence on final as otherwise it was an extremely smooth night for flying.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: EMB F/O reported encountering wake turbulence from a preceding Airbus on approach to CLT.

Narrative: While on an approx. 10-15 visual final for RWY 18R at 5000' ATC vectored an Airbus inside of our course for the Visual 18R. Shortly thereafter the aircraft sharply rolled left (approx 60 deg bank) and pitched down. This action caused the autopilot to fail. At the time I was getting ready to disengage the autopilot and hand fly the remainder of the approach. My hands were very close to all of the controls in preparation to hand fly. Once the event occurred I added correctional aileron and pitched up adding thrust. After a second or so we returned to straight and level flight. The Captain advised ATC immediately of the event to which they seemed surprised and we continued the visual approach. Once on the ground the Captain advised the flight attendant and passengers of the cause of the turbulence on final as otherwise it was an extremely smooth night for flying.

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.