Regional Jet CL65; Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Situational Awareness; Distraction
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach; Inflight Event / Encounter Wake Vortex Encounter
General None Reported / Taken
Procedure; Human Factors
When on arrival and approach the flight was put 5nm in trail of a 757. This caused the aircraft to experience wake turbulence intermittently for the last approximately 100nm of the flight. While focusing on mitigation strategies for the wake; a loss of situational awareness occurred causing the pilot flying to become high and fast on approach. Aircraft was configured by 1;000 feet AGL; however was still stabilizing airspeed. Aircraft landed without incident. Increased spacing between heavy jets and regional jets would reduce the pilot workload on arrival and approach and thus minimize the chance of fixation on that issue.
Reporter stated spacing between different category aircraft should be increased.
Regional Jet First Officer reported distractions from wake turbulence on arrival in trail of a B757 led to an unstabilized approach.