It's not unusual . . .
Go rounds are not too unusual at SFO, in my experience as a very frequent Pax through there. I've witnessed a few, and it's really nothing to be concerned about. Sometimes an aircraft gets held up crossing the end of 28L while taxying to depart from 28R. Arriving aircraft heading for 28L goes round giving the Pax a nice view of the Pacific Ocean and the peninsula and Silicon Valley and a delay of maybe ten minutes.
I've been on the flight deck of arriving Speedbirds on final to 28L/R while departures were given "clear take off" on 1L and 1R crossing our arrival runway. Loads of time really, fun to watch. The go round procedure as I recall (sorry, professional pilots, as an amateur waffles on) for 28L takes you left away from the departing traffic with a climb to 3000' back out over the peninsula and the ocean.
The parallel visual approach on 28L/R when you find yourself with a wingman is much more fun!
Cheers
Last edited by derekl; 17th Feb 2008 at 01:03.