Crj pilot reported that they received an e-gpws terrain warning during visual approach into dro.

Attributes
ACN	1536013
Time
Date	201804
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	DRO.Airport
State Reference	CO
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Regional Jet CL65 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	Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach

Narrative:

Received e-gpws terrain warning during visual approach to runway 21 in durango; colorado (dro). Terrain was visually in sight and verbalized but warning was issued due to aircraft configuration below 1000 AGL [and] due to rising terrain on final approach. Aircraft was not fully configured yet due to descending and decelerating profile on a 7-8 mile final. Executed go-around and landed without incident. This was my first time flying into dro and rising terrain on final was deceiving during descent and approach. Rising terrain on final required a steeper descent profile than I expected and I wasn't configured early enough to satisfy this requirement. Suggestions: aircraft should have been slowed and configured earlier in the approach. E-gpws warning would not have been issued if aircraft was fully configured prior to encountering rising terrain on 7-8 mile final.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: CRJ pilot reported that they received an E-GPWS Terrain warning during visual approach into DRO.

Narrative: Received E-GPWS Terrain warning during visual approach to runway 21 in Durango; Colorado (DRO). Terrain was visually in sight and verbalized but warning was issued due to aircraft configuration below 1000 AGL [and] due to rising terrain on final approach. Aircraft was not fully configured yet due to descending and decelerating profile on a 7-8 mile final. Executed go-around and landed without incident. This was my first time flying into DRO and rising terrain on final was deceiving during descent and approach. Rising terrain on final required a steeper descent profile than I expected and I wasn't configured early enough to satisfy this requirement. Suggestions: Aircraft should have been slowed and configured earlier in the approach. E-GPWS warning would not have been issued if aircraft was fully configured prior to encountering rising terrain on 7-8 mile final.

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.