Thanks Stilton for your bringing up the "soft go-around." Some years ago I was riding on Lufthansa from Frankfurt to Cairo. Weather CAVU. While on approach at about 1500 feet, suddenly the nose pitched up and TOGA came on abruptly. Scared the **** out of me and many of my fellow passengers. What happened? The runway was fouled by a slow-departing aircraft. Clearly a gentle application and gentle pulling up the nose was the appropriate thing to do. No point in upsetting the fare-paying passengers. Nufsaid.