Commercial Fixed Wing
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Situational Awareness
Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT
Flight Crew Became Reoriented; Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Human Factors
On the WAZKO1 Arrival into El Paso; deviating around thunderstorm cells; proceeding direct to KOACH intersection on the arrival. [We] descended to 7;500; [were] handed off to Tower; [and] called the field in sight. [We were] cleared for the visual approach; maintain 6;000 FT until turning base to final. No instrument approach is available for 8R so I 'navved' the aircraft on the centerline fix approach course; started a descent; and started to configure. Tower asked us if we were going over the hill; a ridge line between us and the runway; we said yes and the Tower rescinded the 6;000 foot altitude restriction. We continued the approach keeping the runway and ridge line in sight; approaching the ridge line we got the EGPWS warning; we reacted to it until we were clear of the ridge line and continued the approach to a normal landing. Charted visual approach procedure to Runway 8R at ELP; company information on visual approaches to runway 8R at ELP.
We both had been to ELP before; but it was a first for both of us approaching this side to land on 08R. I do think that some information concerning the ridge on that approach to land on 08R will be useful on the company pages.
Air carrier flight crew reported taking evasive action in response to a GPWS terrain warning on the 8R approach to ELP.