Crj pilot reported responding to a egpws alert while on a visual approach.

Attributes
ACN	1577589
Time
Date	201809
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	AVL.Airport
State Reference	NC
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Regional Jet CL65 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Descent
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

Narrative:

We received a terrain; terrain pull up from the egpws while descending in VMC toward umuxe which is on the ILS 35 into avl. We had been cleared for the visual approach to 35 with the runway in sight. I had vacated the vectoring altitude of 5100 ft for 4000 ft at umuxe. The terrain just southwest of umuxe at 3131 ft triggered the egpws event. In hindsight; delaying the descent until closer to umuxe would prevent to GPWS warning.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: CRJ pilot reported responding to a EGPWS alert while on a visual approach.

Narrative: We received a Terrain; Terrain Pull Up from the EGPWS while descending in VMC toward UMUXE which is on the ILS 35 into AVL. We had been cleared for the visual approach to 35 with the runway in sight. I had vacated the vectoring altitude of 5100 ft for 4000 ft at UMUXE. The terrain just southwest of UMUXE at 3131 ft triggered the EGPWS event. In hindsight; delaying the descent until closer to UMUXE would prevent to GPWS warning.

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.