Originally Posted by
Dropp the Pilot
How nice - after a long absence we get to see one of those vitriolic, curt, anti-EK rants which are entirely unsupported by the facts. It restores my faith in Australian culture.
I've disagreed with SOPS in the past, but he's right on this occasion. Obviously the event was mishandled- but why go-around at all? That can clearly be seen as a part of a punitive company culture where sense and judgement is banned and blind obedience mandated.
Why on earth would you go-around when you were down to your last 3000m of runway if there wasn't a psychology of fear behind it?
I was there 10 years, most of it in training- SOPS is right on this one.