Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT
Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Aircraft; Human Factors
On approach into ROA we had the airport in sight. We were cleared for the visual to runway 24. We backed up the visual with the RNAV approach. In visual conditions right past the FAF we got a GPWS alert. With all terrain in sight we leveled off and the alert stopped. We seemed to be on altitude and lateral path at the time of the alert. We continued the approach to a normal landing. We believed the cause to be the initial pitch down when we started descending at the FAF.
On approach in to Runway 24 in to ROA; we were cleared on the visual; and proceeded to descend with all terrain in sight. We were on slope turning to final and received a GPWS alert. We leveled off while maintaining visual with the terrain; then proceeded to descend on standard slope in to Runway 24.Although we were at 3;700 feet at HIBAN and on glidepath; we believe a initial descent pitch may have caused the GPWS to alert.
CRJ-200 flight crew reported an erroneous GPWS warning on final approach to ROA airport.