Originally Posted by
lederhosen
Go-arounds are one of the worst flown manoeuvers in airline flying. Autothrottle logic as a contributing factor has caught people out on several occasions, for example Turkish in Amsterdam and Asiana in SFO.
Sorry, your adding the unwillingness to pay attention to one's airspeed as an "auto-throttle logic problem" is a reach too far. They weren't 5 or 10 knots slow on final at SFO,
they were 35+ knots slow on final. If any of us were even half that slow on final on any check ride we ever flew we would have failed the check ride. Aviate / Navigate / Communicate applies here in spades, since aviate means
fly the aircraft, not "wonder what it's doing." Training and habit pattern issue, and for that matter SOPs for a given carrier, contribute to flight deck crew habits on final.
Which brings us to this go around after the wheels touched.
Is that trained?
How often is it trained?
How often during the sim training are various errors made?
What are the most common errors?
If you are a Professional Pilot, how well do you know your aircraft systems?
If you know how it works, you can make it work. If you don't know how it works, you'll sometimes have difficulty in making it work. That's true for machines less complicated than a 777 as well.
@keepitrealok: thanks for your points on A-N-C.