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Old 3rd January 2010 | 11:30
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Flight Safety
 
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I recently exchanged PMs with a former Navy carrier pilot.

Those guys have both a fixation to get an aircraft down on the deck, and at the same time have an automatic go-around built into their procedure. Their landings on carriers have the tightest landing requirements of all for speed control and touch down point, and yet they still anticipate a need to go-around if things don't happen correctly. Doesn't it make sense that when tight landing and stopping conditions are encountered in the civilian world, that both fixation to land and the need to go-around can co-exist in the same mind?

Naval aviators do it all the time.
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