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Old 11th Oct 2014, 09:25
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The Ancient Geek
 
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A major issue with go arounds is that airline pilots rarely do them nowadays so they become scary. This leads to fouled up landings from unstable or below minimum approaches.

Back in the days of hacking around the game reserves every landing was fully briefed and on a hair trigger for a go around because they were an almost weekly occurrence due to wildlife etc.

Somewhere an essential skill has been lost, a go around is not a failure - it is a wise move and should be the instinctive reaction when in any doubt.
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