Air carrier flight crew reported continuing the approach contrary to procedure after receiving a GPW...

Attributes
ACN	1492443
Time
Date	201710
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	DAL.Airport
State Reference	TX
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Large Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 660 Flight Crew Type 11600
Person 2
Function	Pilot Not Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 585 Flight Crew Type 1028
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

Narrative:

I was flying a visual approach to runway 31L. It was a very clear night and we were cleared early for the visual; so I elected to fly a close-in base for landing. As I was about to turn final; we received a 'caution; obstacle' alert. I leveled off on my turn to final; and then resumed the approach to an uneventful landing. Moments later; I remembered that even though we had unlimited visibility; I was required by procedure to execute a go-around in that situation; a realization I did not make during the confusion of the event.it was once very common to hand fly a tight approach to the northwest runways in dal; but I will always invest the extra minute or two to stay on a magenta line in the future. Personally; this event itself will serve as very effective mnemonic aid for complying with go-around policy for GPWS cautions.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air carrier flight crew reported continuing the approach contrary to procedure after receiving a GPWS obstacle alert on a night visual approach to DAL.

Narrative: I was flying a visual approach to Runway 31L. It was a very clear night and we were cleared early for the visual; so I elected to fly a close-in base for landing. As I was about to turn final; we received a 'Caution; Obstacle' Alert. I leveled off on my turn to final; and then resumed the approach to an uneventful landing. Moments later; I remembered that even though we had unlimited visibility; I was required by procedure to execute a go-around in that situation; a realization I did not make during the confusion of the event.It was once very common to hand fly a tight approach to the northwest runways in DAL; but I will always invest the extra minute or two to stay on a magenta line in the future. Personally; this event itself will serve as very effective mnemonic aid for complying with go-around policy for GPWS Cautions.

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.

Air carrier flight crew reported continuing the approach contrary to procedure after receiving a GPWS obstacle alert on a night visual approach to dal.