EMB ERJ 145 ER/LR
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Situational Awareness
Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT
Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Human Factors; Procedure; Company Policy
Received a GPWS aural alert during our descent into ROA while complying with Tower assigned heading and altitude changes in VMC; while visually clear of all terrain.Out of an overabundance of caution; I leveled the wings; increased power; and brought the nose above the horizon; at which point the aural alert immediately subsided.
Flying into ROA for visual into Rwy 24 approach gave down to 4;000 heading 250; FO (First Officer) had terrain on my side and we had the terrain visually. We still received a GPWS warning. The Captain who was flying disconnected autopilot; and climbed up to 4;500 before continuing approach.It was dusk [and] at night we can't do advanced RNAV's to 24; we requested RNAV's 06 but told unable. Allowing us to fly RNAV's 06 would have kept us on an actual approach away from the terrain.
EMB-145 flight crew reported a GPWS terrain alert on a night visual approach into ROA.