Originally Posted by
funfly
Join the club.
- meaning those of us who have been there and understand fully where you are coming from.
I've had it go the other way on occasion. On a check ride, moderately lousy approach, which I could have recovered from (at the cost of a small fraction of the available 2km of tarmac).
But I went around.
Instructor: "Oh, I thought you'd have rescued that one, I've seen you recover from worse?"
Me: "Sure, but I haven't done a go-around for a couple of years so I thought I'd take this opportunity to practice one"