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Old 6th Nov 2010, 15:38
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Nubboy
 
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Just had a quick scan at the beginning of the report in french.
14,000 hrs, TRI on type, 3,800 on type. Elected to hand fly with manual thrust . Fully configured and stable at 2,000' agl. Immediately following an A330 which got in. However a previous AF had just missed. A new METAR showed 1000 m vis, scattered 1500', broken 230'. Decided at 200', put power on to FLX/MCT and pitch to 5deg at 150' agl. Reduced flap to config3, engaged AP1 and called for gear up. Watched aircraft level off and start descending. Disconnected AP and pull hard ish. Missed Go around instructions from ATC. Master warnings audible ove the R/T link. Min height of 76' agl.

Seems like a lot of dubious decisions and poor airmanship here. I wonder who was head down and looking in, and head up and looking out. 50 foot height difference between decision and commencing the go around. Not pushing the thrust levers all the way to TOGA. Not reading the FMA and seeing LAND gren still illumintated. Not pitching to at least 10deg nose up one engine inop, or preferably 15 with both engines working. Going for the autopilot before climbing safely away from the ground.

Sometime ago we had a series of events in the poor vis sections of our sim training. The instructor would fail the GO AROUND mode after inducing a low level go around due to another failure or winding the vis/cloudbase right down. Even if you selected TOGA, the FMS was stuck in LAND mode. You had to disconnect the autopilot, ensure TOGA thrust and hand fly away from the runway. Any crew that didn't would find the box on legs heading downhill, with the thrust rolling back. Not pretty.

Lessons for us all here I think.
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