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Old 26th January 2019 | 12:57
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Okavango
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MDA - When do YOU go around?

Most training received agrees that the MDA (including PEC in a light twin) is the altitude you must not go below. Reading David Hoy's book it suggests that's the altitude you make the decision and initiate the go around (so presumably descending up to a further 50ft). David Hoy's book states "The precision approach OCH includes an aircraft height loss allowance to allow for the initiation of a missed approach". So if you'd calculated the MDA (including PEC) as 300ft for example - where would you initiate the go around - 350ft or 300ft and if initiated at 300ft in the UK with an assumed undershoot to follow would an IR examiner give an immediate fail? General consensus would be great.
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