Originally Posted by
SASless
Gipsy,
One can always lead with power.....when the decision is made to go around you invariably want to fly up....adjust collective to climb power....adjust the pitch attitude either by means of the GA Button or as you suggest....manually using force trim on and ATT Mode.
After you are established in a climb....the rest of procedure can be dealt with.
A note....the canned Missed Approach is fine if that is the same as the clearance you were provided as there can be non-standard instructions given.
Now some Sky God shall come along and want to argue which action should be "first"....but either pitch or collective is fine...but for sure the collective must be adjusted to climb power or all the other actions will not matter much.
It worked in the Huey with no SAS or AFCS....and every other dinosaur aircraft.
Interesting thought but actually from a coupled 3 axis approach (eg ILS) it very much does have to be upper mode change first, power second.
If you pull power while still coupled on the approach, you merrily accelerate towards the ground. "PITCH MODE->POWER is very much the mantra we have to use. I have seen some spectacular collisions with the runway when power is pulled first, the pilot language deteriorates to ever stronger expletives, then they fail to step back through the automation gracefully (ie they fight the modes).
It may not work or be necessary for some AFCS installations (particularly those where collective always controls vertical modes) but in earlier Airbus 3 axis machines or later machines in 3 axis mode, the mantra is essential in my opinion.
But this is really thread creep. Back to SAS and ATT!