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Old 13th Nov 2013, 17:43
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ahramin
 
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Pretty simple really. 1 out of 10 go-arounds leads to an unsafe situation, often due to non-existent manual flying skills.

So if you are an adherent to the "autopilot always on" school of thought and have trouble manually flying a go-around, airmanship would indeed dictate that you leave the autopilot on until cleared to land to reduce the risk of a botched go-around.

While I haven't seen a memo or SOP on this at my company yet, many instructors are already preaching this for landings at LGW because of the high number of GAs there. I think it's only a matter of time before this becomes part of many airline's SOPs.
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