Originally Posted by
Loose rivets
When did overshooting become going around? I just don't like a statement that could be a command. Go around! We're going around.
We didn't overshoot in the old days, we just ran out of grass and really didn't need to tell anybody because because bouncing over huge sods and spinning around trees was obvious.
Overshoot became Go Around in the eighties. I think one reason was that overshoot (and undershoot) had other meanings in relation to landing short of or over running a runway and, in that context could describe the effect of windshear.