Originally Posted by
giggitygiggity
Blimey, demoting someone for going around is hardly a just culture.
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On the other hand, a pilot going around at 500ft because they're unstable here will probably result in the award of a bottle of champagne. This works well in the Europe and we don't crash planes due to unstable approaches. Your milage may vary elsewhere in the world.
Correct, horses for courses.
It was bait. Full story
1) SOP is to be stable at 1500'. And it is enforced with FDM, i.e. not a SOP to "please plan to be stable by 1500" but rather "we pay you to be stable by 1500, no "pleases", "buts" or "ifs";
2) 1000 is OM-A and NAA hard limit;
3) if you go around 1000-500 you will be processed (in a similar manner you have described above with allowances for the cultural differences, i.e. more public shaming);
4) if you go around but only as late as below 500 - demotion;
5) if you land from unstable at 500 - termination.
My point is whether the "standard" 1000 ft rule is sufficient. Somewhere I've read about a trial with the gate set as low as 300' and it worked better than 1000.