A flight crew reported an egpws terrain; pull up warning at about 2;100 ft on a night visual approac...

Attributes
ACN	1001116
Time
Date	201203
Local Time Of Day	0001-0600
Place
Locale Reference	BDL.Airport
State Reference	CT
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Large Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 80 Flight Crew Total 15000 Flight Crew Type 7000
Person 2
Function	Pilot Flying First Officer
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 30 Flight Crew Total 5000 Flight Crew Type 600
Events
Anomaly	Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

Narrative:

We were on a visual approach to runway 06 at approximately 4;000 ft flying toward penne. We had a quartering tailwind on base and were ask to keep our speed up for traffic to follow us. At approximately 3;000 ft with the airport in sight we began a turn toward hunee descending to the glide slope intercept altitude of 1;800 ft. With the speed brake extended we had a pretty high rate of descent. I was in the terrain mode and checked my HSI to see if there was any terrain to be aware of. The only terrain depicted was off to our left and passing behind us. At approximately 2;100 ft and approximately 4.0 NM from hunee we received a terrain warning. The pilot flying began an immediate CFIT maneuver and climbed to 2;400 ft. The warning ceased as soon as we began the maneuver. We intercepted the localizer/GS and made a normal landing. I believe that the combination of our ground speed and descent rate triggered the egpws event. I really think that when approaching bdl from the west/southwest you need to always intercept at/outside of penne no lower than 3;000 ft.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A flight crew reported an EGPWS TERRAIN; PULL UP warning at about 2;100 FT on a night visual approach to BDL Runway 6 because of a high rate of descent to the glide slope altitude eight miles from the runway.

Narrative: We were on a visual approach to Runway 06 at approximately 4;000 FT flying toward PENNE. We had a quartering tailwind on base and were ask to keep our speed up for traffic to follow us. At approximately 3;000 FT with the airport in sight we began a turn toward HUNEE descending to the glide slope intercept altitude of 1;800 FT. With the speed brake extended we had a pretty high rate of descent. I was in the terrain mode and checked my HSI to see if there was any terrain to be aware of. The only terrain depicted was off to our left and passing behind us. At approximately 2;100 FT and approximately 4.0 NM from HUNEE we received a terrain warning. The pilot flying began an immediate CFIT maneuver and climbed to 2;400 FT. The warning ceased as soon as we began the maneuver. We intercepted the LOC/GS and made a normal landing. I believe that the combination of our ground speed and descent rate triggered the EGPWS event. I really think that when approaching BDL from the west/southwest you need to always intercept at/outside of PENNE no lower than 3;000 FT.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 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.

A flight crew reported an egpws terrain; pull up warning at about 2;100 ft on a night visual approach to bdl runway 6 because of a high rate of descent to the glide slope altitude eight miles from the runway.