When cleared for a visual approach to 16L at den and advised of converging traffic inbound to 16R th...

Narrative:

We were cleared for the visual to runway 16L at denver. The first officer was the pilot flying and I was the pilot monitoring. We were told by ATC that there would be converging traffic lining up for runway 16R and we visually acquired the converging traffic around eight miles out. At approximately five miles; we received a RA telling us to descend at 1;500 fpm. We disengaged the autopilot and autothrottles and complied with the RA. However; we were unable to execute a go-around because we did not want to pull up into the RA descend command. As we passed 1;000 AGL; we arrested our descent to 1;000 fpm; which caused us to pull up into the RA 'avoidance' region. The RA cancelled at approximately 700 AGL. We made an uneventful landing and taxied to the gate.once we were on the ground and at the gate; we revisited our den airport operations page and discovered that runway 16L/right is one of the runways where; under certain conditions; TA should be selected on the TCAS. All of these conditions were met on our flight:1. We were making the approach to runway 16L.2. Den tower did notify us that there was converging parallel traffic to runway 16R.3. Traffic was in sight.4. Visual separation was maintained throughout the approach and landing.we realized that we should have selected TA on the TCAS once these conditions were met.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: When cleared for a Visual Approach to 16L at DEN and advised of converging traffic inbound to 16R the flight crew of a B737-700 failed to tune their TCAS to TA only and experienced a TCAS 'descend' RA of 1500 fpm.

Narrative: We were cleared for the visual to Runway 16L at Denver. The First Officer was the pilot flying and I was the pilot monitoring. We were told by ATC that there would be converging traffic lining up for Runway 16R and we visually acquired the converging traffic around eight miles out. At approximately five miles; we received a RA telling us to descend at 1;500 fpm. We disengaged the autopilot and autothrottles and complied with the RA. However; we were unable to execute a go-around because we did not want to pull up into the RA descend command. As we passed 1;000 AGL; we arrested our descent to 1;000 fpm; which caused us to pull up into the RA 'avoidance' region. The RA cancelled at approximately 700 AGL. We made an uneventful landing and taxied to the gate.Once we were on the ground and at the gate; we revisited our DEN airport operations page and discovered that Runway 16L/R is one of the runways where; under certain conditions; TA should be selected on the TCAS. All of these conditions were met on our flight:1. We were making the approach to Runway 16L.2. DEN Tower did notify us that there was converging parallel traffic to Runway 16R.3. Traffic was in sight.4. Visual separation was maintained throughout the approach and landing.We realized that we should have selected TA on the TCAS once these conditions were met.

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Attributes
ACN	1182071
Time
Date	201406
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	DEN.Airport
State Reference	CO
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B737-700
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	TCAS Equipment
Person 1
Function	Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 227 Flight Crew Type 9000
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Conflict Airborne Conflict Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

When cleared for a visual approach to 16L at den and advised of converging traffic inbound to 16R the flight crew of a B737-700 failed to tune their TCAS to TA only and experienced a TCAS 'descend' RA of 1500 fpm.