Narrative:

On approach to the airport ATC cleared the aircraft for the visual approach and to descend at pilot's discretion to 3;000 feet. Upon entering a right downwind for the runway ATC told us to contact tower. Tower cleared us to land following traffic on short final and to join final at or above 2;700 feet. The aircraft at this point was at 3;000 feet. Approximately 8 miles from the airport a turn to base was made as a slow descent rate was began to join final at 2;700 feet. On base at approximately 2;900 feet a terrain warning with a verbal climb was announced. Pilot flying began to apply maximum power via SOP procedures at the same time the egpws warning stopped. Both pilots clearly identified the aircraft was not in any proximity to the ground and continued the visual approach using standing SOP procedure to a normal approach and landing to the airport.crew identified the event as an erroneous egpws warning due to low ATC vectoring and terrain on the opposite side of the approach course. Contributing factors included ATC communication; altitude assigned to join final; and hills in the vicinity of the airport and approach course.upon receiving clearance for the visual approach ensure all altitude maintained on downwind and base are no lower than surrounding terrain on opposite side of the approach course. Suggest higher altitude maintained and base to final turn be made to join final at an increased altitude.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Bombardier CRJ-200 flight crew reported receiving a terrain warning message due to ATC vectoring.

Narrative: On approach to the airport ATC cleared the aircraft for the visual approach and to descend at pilot's discretion to 3;000 feet. Upon entering a right downwind for the runway ATC told us to contact Tower. Tower cleared us to land following traffic on short final and to join final at or above 2;700 feet. The aircraft at this point was at 3;000 feet. Approximately 8 miles from the airport a turn to base was made as a slow descent rate was began to join final at 2;700 feet. On base at approximately 2;900 feet a terrain warning with a verbal climb was announced. Pilot flying began to apply maximum power via SOP procedures at the same time the EGPWS warning stopped. Both pilots clearly identified the aircraft was not in any proximity to the ground and continued the visual approach using standing SOP procedure to a normal approach and landing to the airport.Crew identified the event as an erroneous EGPWS warning due to low ATC vectoring and terrain on the opposite side of the approach course. Contributing factors included ATC communication; altitude assigned to join final; and hills in the vicinity of the airport and approach course.Upon receiving clearance for the visual approach ensure all altitude maintained on downwind and base are no lower than surrounding terrain on opposite side of the approach course. Suggest higher altitude maintained and base to final turn be made to join final at an increased altitude.

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.