Regional Jet CL65; Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Situational Awareness
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT
Flight Crew FLC complied w / Automation / Advisory
Environment - Non Weather Related; Procedure; Human Factors
We received a Terrain; Terrain Pull Up from the EGPWS while descending in VMC toward UMUXE which is on the ILS 35 into AVL. We had been cleared for the visual approach to 35 with the runway in sight. I had vacated the vectoring altitude of 5100 ft for 4000 ft at UMUXE. The terrain just southwest of UMUXE at 3131 ft triggered the EGPWS event. In hindsight; delaying the descent until closer to UMUXE would prevent to GPWS warning.
CRJ pilot reported responding to a EGPWS alert while on a visual approach.