[aka HKGpax]
Can anybody out there produce any statistics on the proportion of landings that result in a go-around?
I ask because the professional opinion here is clearly that they are a normal or even frequent part of flying.
I certainly accept that they are a well-established procedure and not a problem or inherently a cause for concern.
But on the other hand, I have racked up approaching 500 landings as SLF in commercial airliners in the last 3 years, and I have not had a single go-round (or aborted takeoff, or anything else untoward except a little coffee in my lap in some mild turbulence once). Is this statistically unusual, or is the general opinion that something is "normal" if it happens in less than 0.2% of cases?