Thank you for your measured and thoughtful post Chimbu, I think that says it all.
PS. Scotty, I wouldn't consider aborting an approach at 500 ft to be necessarily a "Go Around" but in the Warrior and C172, I was taught "Climb" = "Full power", not sure if its an ops manual thing or if its in the POH, in any case, there is no difference between 'discontinuing an approach" and a "Go Around" at 500 ft in those aircraft.
I guess we could split hairs with larger aircraft at 500 ft and set "climb Power" (eg:75% max cont. 25/2400 in some Arrows) compared to full power if one was Going Around from 50 ft. As Chuck said, it depends on the situation, however I suggest training for the worst case from the point of view of difficulty/control forces etc. is the prudent thing to do.
But again, I was taught that 300 ft is your "decision height", at which point you go to full fine and do your PUF checks, so any go around from below 300ft is going to be a full power one.
Last edited by Sunfish; 20th Dec 2007 at 03:26.