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A corporate jet captain reported encountering wake turbulence from a preceding corporate jet on approach to lax and made adjustments to prevent further wake experiences without advising tower.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 914223 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201010 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0601-1200 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | LAX.Airport |
| State Reference | CA |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Small Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 135 |
| Flight Phase | Initial Approach |
| Route In Use | Visual Approach |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Aircraft 2 | |
| Make Model Name | Commercial Fixed Wing |
| Flight Phase | Final Approach |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain Pilot Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Flight Instructor |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 110 Flight Crew Total 25150 Flight Crew Type 2400 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Track / Heading All Types Inflight Event / Encounter Wake Vortex Encounter |
| Miss Distance | Horizontal 5280 Vertical 300 |
Narrative:
Was on a vector to visual approach at lax. Socal gave us a 220 heading to a visual approach. Upon reaching turn to final we experienced wake turbulence that rolled the aircraft about 40 degrees. Since we were cleared for visual approach we chose to widen out to the left to avoid the wake turbulence. There was a corporate jet for the south complex (25L); we were 24R. We advised ATC we had the corporate jet in sight when beginning visual approach. We saw that we were getting a little to close to the corporate jet and then turned towards end of our runway. ATC asked 'do you have 24R in sight?' we said 'yes; turning for numbers now'. I know that ATC was a little worried; however we had aircraft in sight at all times. I think in the future this could have been avoided if we immediately advised that we were avoiding the wake turbulence. This would have let the controller know that we were in control and still had traffic in sight.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A corporate jet Captain reported encountering wake turbulence from a preceding corporate jet on approach to LAX and made adjustments to prevent further wake experiences without advising tower.
Narrative: Was on a vector to visual approach at LAX. Socal gave us a 220 heading to a visual approach. Upon reaching turn to final we experienced wake turbulence that rolled the aircraft about 40 degrees. Since we were cleared for visual approach we chose to widen out to the left to avoid the wake turbulence. There was a corporate jet for the south complex (25L); We were 24R. We advised ATC we had the corporate jet in sight when beginning visual approach. We saw that we were getting a little to close to the corporate jet and then turned towards end of our runway. ATC asked 'do you have 24R in sight?' We said 'Yes; turning for numbers now'. I know that ATC was a little worried; however we had aircraft in sight at all times. I think in the future this could have been avoided if we immediately advised that we were avoiding the wake turbulence. This would have let the Controller know that we were in control and still had traffic in sight.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.