Originally Posted by
Wizofoz
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?
Exactly they went around because they thought they would get into trouble, trouble with the company because of a long landing, and trouble with ATC as they reduce the spacing so much even in conditions that would reasonably cause this sort of issue to require pilots to take early runway exits.
The accident also highlights that the Honeywell system is junk, it only looks at the runway behind them to tell them its a long landing. It should be looking at the amount of runway ahead, aircraft performance, CG, braking etc to determine if it can stop in the remaining distance. Next invention to come out of Honeywell will be a callout that tells you that you have just burnt 10 tonnes of fuel and nothing about the a amount fuel remaining.
A long landing on a dry runway that is 4447 meters in length with a serviceable aircraft in landing configuration must be absolutely terrifying. The margin they had on their inflight landing performance calculation would have been around 2000 m.
So you go around, it is still going to be 50 degrees, the wind profile on final is going to be the same, why do you want to repeat the same all over again when a perfectly good dry long runway is in front of you with enough room to stop twice over.