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A320 first officer reported receiving a GPWS alert on a night visual approach.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1473787 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201707 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0001-0600 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.TRACON |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Night |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | A320 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Initial Approach |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | First Officer Pilot Flying Trainee |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Altitude Excursion From Assigned Altitude Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT |
Narrative:
It was [early] morning as we were approaching on a moonless night into ZZZ (no visual outline of terrain). This was our 3rd flight of the day and our last day of this oe (operating experience) trip. We had been cleared for the visual approach so I; the pilot flying; proceeded with the descent. Having less than 20 hours of flight time in the airplane at the time was lacking judgement of descend profile and aircraft performance. As we had been cleared for the visual approach my goal was to descend; level off; configure and intercept. I recall that both pilots had terrain up on the nd (navigational display). As we received a GPWS alert; I responded to the alert. When we were clear of the conflict we had enough time to safely maneuver and land the airplane. I believe using open descend was providing an excessive descend rate.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A320 First Officer reported receiving a GPWS alert on a night visual approach.
Narrative: It was [early] morning as we were approaching on a moonless night into ZZZ (no visual outline of terrain). This was our 3rd flight of the day and our last day of this OE (Operating Experience) trip. We had been cleared for the visual approach so I; the pilot flying; proceeded with the descent. Having less than 20 hours of flight time in the airplane at the time was lacking judgement of descend profile and aircraft performance. As we had been cleared for the visual approach my goal was to descend; level off; configure and intercept. I recall that both pilots had terrain up on the ND (Navigational Display). As we received a GPWS alert; I responded to the alert. When we were clear of the conflict we had enough time to safely maneuver and land the airplane. I believe using open descend was providing an excessive descend rate.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site 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.