Regional Jet 200 ER/LR (CRJ200)
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Deviation - Track / Heading All Types; Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control; Inflight Event / Encounter Wake Vortex Encounter
Flight Crew Regained Aircraft Control; Flight Crew Returned To Clearance
Procedure; Environment - Non Weather Related
Departed behind an A319 on Runway 26L; on rotation received momentary stick shaker. Held pitch; and speed was normal. At roughly 500 FT AGL encountered wake turbulence. The nose pitched up about five degrees; and then the airplane rolled violently to the left. Corrected with right aileron; and managed to bring the wings level. [We] continued climbing at V2+15 in an effort to climb above the wake. We encountered the same violent left roll three more times in rapid succession; and finally recovered at about 1;200 FT AGL.By the time we regained control authority; we had missed our right turn to SNUFY on the RMBLN departure. ATC inquired about our track. My First Officer very quickly informed the Controller that we had just recovered from a wake turbulence upset. We were assigned a heading to rejoin the departure. The rest of the flight was uneventful. When we checked on with ATL Departure Control; we were given a phone number to call upon landing to talk to the Tower supervisor. We did so; explaining what had happened. He was very gracious and apologetic and seemed very concerned about whether or not we were familiar with the new separation standards. I told him that we were. Apparently they are collecting data on incidents like ours and tracking trends. He didn't seem interested in pursuing it further.Clearly the threat here was wake turbulence and our proximity to the preceding traffic. Hopefully this incident will help ATC assess the effectiveness and safety of the new minima.
CRJ-200 Captain reported encountering wake turbulence in trail of an A319 on takeoff from ATL that resulted in multiple violent rolls at low altitude.