Originally Posted by
pettinger93
Forgive a perhaps naive question: having flown lot as SLF over the years, (mostly around Europe, but sometimes further afield) I have never , until last night, experienced a 'go around' on landing. How frequent is this experience? Last night, arriving at Gatwick on an Emirates A380-800 in very windy and bumpy conditions, we went around from just short of the runway end. The flight crew managed to get in on the second attempt, but the landing was so hard that a number of panels in the cabin fell down. Probably all in a nights work for them, but it got my heart beating a bit faster.
I'd guesstimate that I flew one go-around per year - if that. 900htrs per year, probably 400 sectors (Eu shorthaul). So very roughly on that anecdotal and completely unscientific example, say one in five hundred?