Originally Posted by
seahawks
ATC since 80’s.
UK did use overshoot when I started, think it changed to go-around late 80’s early 90’s.
It was the mid eighties, I think, not long after I started: ironically, as I recall it, the change was driven because the "overshoot" term was ambiguous. It was sometimes used in the US to denote the area beyond the runway, so had caused confusion with someone trying to land "over" an obstruction on the runway, rather than break off the approach & climb away. As I recall it, "go around" was the preferred US term then, so it's strange that it's morphed into something else since, such that US aviators don't recognise it.