Slim Slag,
Yes, the ATC were very good. It wasn’t as complex and as daunting as I thought it would be. The landing fee was quite a lot, but its only a one off and I like the look of it in my log book, I’m sad I know!
There was quite a strong headwind when we landed so our ground speed was quite slow and we were getting a bit dizzy to! So on the 2nd attempt we decided to just increase the finals speed to get down and out of the way with as little disruption as possible. Obviously its very hard to fly a standard base/finals app trying to fit in to faster traffic so we just wanted to fit in so the a/c behind us wouldn’t catch us up.
I learned a lot that day, and here too reading about the go around procedures, so I’m glad that as a low hours PPL I got the guts to actually do it (although I did take an instructor just in case!)
Cheers!