Bizarre Go-Arounds
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Once I had a flight with the training chief of the company (he was one of the biggest asssholes then) on a 737 to Malpensa. At around 3000 feet I contacted the tower (he was flying from right seat), and the controller said "In case of a missed approach rwy heading 5500 ft" - he immediately went around. The controller said "OK then, contact approach"
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A gotcha on the older Airbus aircraft is if they don't have the global speed protection (as per a tech log thread recently) if you say intercept the glide from above using a sporting rate of descent, if you hit the max speed for that config you will get a reversion to open climb, kind of an auto g/a. It has caught out pilots in the company I work for and was the subject of an aircrew notice.
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I was an ATCA at Heathrow about a million years ago, and was standing at the bus stop one evening, looking across the road to the CTB, when I spotted the boss (Basil Turner) coming out through the doors. As this happened, there was an ear splitting roar and a PIA 707, on an overshoot seemed to miss the top of the tower by not much at all. The thing that impressed me was that the boss didn`t break stride at all; just did a very smooth 180 turn back into the building.
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Student Pilot Go-around
Weston
C172
No landing clearance from ATC despite three "finals" from me. A C152 had just cleared the active. I performed a go around at about 10feet.
Not exciting compared to the pro's, but I think I made the right decision. And a good learning as a meer student PPL.
C172
No landing clearance from ATC despite three "finals" from me. A C152 had just cleared the active. I performed a go around at about 10feet.
Not exciting compared to the pro's, but I think I made the right decision. And a good learning as a meer student PPL.
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Originally Posted by mr.777
"We hit the TOGA button by mistake"
During our sim check-out, I managed to disconnect the auto throttle instead of command a go around!
