Dash 8 first officer reported egpws alert was triggered on night visual approach to sby.

Attributes
ACN	1111520
Time
Date	201212
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	SBY.Airport
State Reference	MD
Environment
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Dash 8 Series Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial
Events
Anomaly	Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

Narrative:

On the arrival into sby we were cleared for the visual approach runway 14. During the visual approach for runway 14 the PF descended on a left base entry too low. The egpws system went off at 560 ft. At the sign of the egpws alert the PF then increased the pitch of the plane to regain a safe altitude [which led to] a stabilized approach into runway 14. Both pilots were looking outside during the visual approach. Pm should stay inside during a visual approach especially at night.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Dash 8 First Officer reported EGPWS alert was triggered on night visual approach to SBY.

Narrative: On the arrival into SBY we were cleared for the visual approach Runway 14. During the visual approach for Runway 14 the PF descended on a left base entry too low. The EGPWS system went off at 560 FT. At the sign of the EGPWS alert the PF then increased the pitch of the plane to regain a safe altitude [which led to] a stabilized approach into Runway 14. Both pilots were looking outside during the visual approach. PM should stay inside during a visual approach especially at night.

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.