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CRJ200 captain reported that they descended early for the FAF and received an egpws terrain alert.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1491148 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201710 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1801-2400 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | AVL.Airport |
| State Reference | NC |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Night |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Regional Jet 200 ER/LR (CRJ200) |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Descent |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain Pilot Not Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Clearance Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT |
Narrative:
We we're flying into avl at night. We briefed the terrain in the area and decided to use the ILS course and profile to fly the visual approach. The first officer decided to get down to the FAF altitude early so he could be completely configured and slowed by the FAF. I thought we were past the terrain so I didn't see anything wrong with that. However there is a hill closer to the FAF than I thought. So we got the egpws terrain alert. We disconnected the autopilot and climbed until the alert stopped. At this point we still had the terrain in sight and the airport and continued the visual approach. I misinterpreted the approach chart and allowed the first officer to get us down too early. On our 10-7 chart we have plotted a typical egpws occurrence that is a different one into this airport. I would like for the company to plot this one. I wrote a report about this.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: CRJ200 Captain reported that they descended early for the FAF and received an EGPWS terrain alert.
Narrative: We we're flying into AVL at night. We briefed the terrain in the area and decided to use the ILS course and profile to fly the visual approach. The FO decided to get down to the FAF altitude early so he could be completely configured and slowed by the FAF. I thought we were past the terrain so I didn't see anything wrong with that. However there is a hill closer to the FAF than I thought. So we got the EGPWS terrain alert. We disconnected the autopilot and climbed until the alert stopped. At this point we still had the terrain in sight and the airport and continued the visual approach. I misinterpreted the approach chart and allowed the FO to get us down too early. On our 10-7 chart we have plotted a typical EGPWS occurrence that is a different one into this airport. I would like for the company to plot this one. I wrote a report about this.
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.