A320 flight crew reported receiving a GPWS terrain alert on approach to las.

Attributes
ACN	1542970
Time
Date	201805
Place
Locale Reference	LAS.Airport
State Reference	NV
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	A320
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 200 Flight Crew Type 9544
Person 2
Function	First Officer Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 200 Flight Crew Type 2139
Events
Anomaly	Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

Narrative:

Pilot flying. Fuzzy arrival las. Level at 5;500 feet and cleared visual approximately one mile east of bld. Initiated descent to 3;800 feet and turn toward FAF relin at 180 knots. During descent; aware of terrain and visual with terrain so I commanded first officer to set 0 FPM descent and leveled off at 4;500 feet. Approximately 5-10 seconds after leveling off received terrain warning. Per procedures for daytime with terrain warning; reacted to terrain warning and returned aircraft to desired state. Once warning subsided; resumed the approach with no incidents. Stable approach criteria met easily. Although avoidance procedure initiated; terrain was always in view and neither crew member felt that aircraft was in unsafe position.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A320 flight crew reported receiving a GPWS terrain alert on approach to LAS.

Narrative: Pilot flying. FUZZY Arrival LAS. Level at 5;500 feet and cleared visual approximately one mile east of BLD. Initiated descent to 3;800 feet and turn toward FAF RELIN at 180 knots. During descent; aware of terrain and visual with terrain so I commanded First Officer to set 0 FPM descent and leveled off at 4;500 feet. Approximately 5-10 seconds after leveling off received TERRAIN WARNING. Per procedures for daytime with terrain warning; reacted to terrain warning and returned aircraft to desired state. Once warning subsided; resumed the approach with no incidents. Stable approach criteria met easily. Although avoidance procedure initiated; terrain was always in view and neither crew member felt that aircraft was in unsafe position.

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.