B757-200
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Distraction; Situational Awareness; Training / Qualification
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General None Reported / Taken
Human Factors; Procedure; Airport
Flap extension at FL215; with flap operating max altitude of FL200. This was on descent into EGE; with the associated energy management; and airspeed restrictions playing on my attention more than an operating limit that should have been more in my mind at the time. My experience level in the seat is low. Although with several flights into EGE in December; I didn't recall whether I or my First Officer was flying. It may help if something was posted in the company airport pages to remind pilots of flap altitude limits during descent into EGE.
On approach into Eagle Colorado we received a GPWS warning due to terrain closure rate because the aircraft was not being fully configured passing BARZA in VMC conditions. We got a late crossing restriction from ATC to cross RLG at 14000 feet and deployed the speed brakes and extended flaps to 5 degrees at an altitude higher than the aircraft limitations allow.
B757-200 flight crew reports extending the flaps above FL200 descending into EGE.