....It would be nice if airlines INSTILL in their pilots thats its OK to go around, in all cases. If the PF or PNF has ANY doubts about the stability of the approach, say 3 nm from touchdown, just go around! Pax and Aircraft saved.
I would have thought that airlines have an SOP in determining a go around. Why are these not being followed?
Operator I work for would dearly like to see more GAs for unstable or even marginal approaches.
Re the second point, the SOPs are there, but on occasion not followed. The reasons might vary, but I think a signifcant factor is on a "high workload" approach, the criteria / triggers / time needed to "evaluate" the situation are missed. Swiss Cheese again - little point in calling/checkng "Stable" or whatever on 95% of Approaches since these are the unimportant ones. It needs some system of an absolute trigger the crew cannot ignore / fail to notice - not easy.