Small Transport
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 157; Flight Crew Total 9291; Flight Crew Type 3780
Situational Awareness
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT; Inflight Event / Encounter Object
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; Flight Crew Diverted; Flight Crew Executed Go Around / Missed Approach
Weather; Procedure; Human Factors
Conducting a GPS LPV approach to Runway 11 at ORH. It was night and the weather was changing rapidly due to a frontal system just to the north. Everything appeared to be normal through the final approach fix RILOC. The autopilot captured the course and the glide path. At 1500 MSL I called 300 above minimums. A few seconds later the radar altimeter activated which was set to 204 ft AGL. About a second or two after that I felt a bump in the rudder pedals. I immediately executed a missed approach and climbed. I found out later after I had landed at [a different airport] that I had contacted a tree with my wingtip.
Turboprop pilot reported contacting a tree during a night IMC RNAV (GPS) Runway 11 approach to ORH. A go-around was initiated and the flight diverted to an alternate airport.