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Old 18th January 2014 | 12:59
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rsbessa
 
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One thing that I was taught during my initial training on the NG was the gouge: 400ft... "AT, LNAV, Autopilot, Set Radios for missed approach" . WORKS LIKE A CHARM!

So, this is the sequence I do nowadays: Toga (just once, as long as the situation doesn't demands a second push) , throttles forward, ask for flap 15 and after positive RoC is achieved, gear up. When the workload reduces to the chap next to me I ask him to Set Go Around thrust and, as soon as I'm above the amber altitude band, I call for the At, Roll mode and Autopilot!

After watching some GAs, there are a few things that I couldn't understand so far:

# Why most of the pilots forget that the AT is avaiable? Once this caused a huuuuuge flap limit exceedance to the operator Im flying. Something like 250kt with flaps 15...

# Whats the thing on pushing the damn toga button twice, even for low altitude level offs?

#Why some keep disconnecting the autopilot and the autothrottle to perform a go around? Don't they know that once you push the toga button the autopilot will automatically switch off (single channel GA)?

Just a few thoughts!
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