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Pilot reported receiving several GPWS alerts while crossing a ridge line during a visual approach to eat.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1521567 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201802 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1801-2400 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | EAT.Airport |
| State Reference | WA |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Night |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Commercial Fixed Wing |
| Flight Phase | Initial Approach |
| Route In Use | Visual Approach |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT |
Narrative:
During a visual approach to runway 30 in VMC conditions; the ground proximity alerted several times as we descended over a ridge to the southwest of the airport. If planning a visual approach plan accordingly to keep flight path inside the valley.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Pilot reported receiving several GPWS alerts while crossing a ridge line during a visual approach to EAT.
Narrative: During a visual approach to Runway 30 in VMC conditions; the ground proximity alerted several times as we descended over a ridge to the southwest of the airport. If planning a visual approach plan accordingly to keep flight path inside the valley.
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.