Your first/last GO AROUND
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Your first/last GO AROUND
Just watching reruns of flying wild Alaska and love how they make a go around out to be a extreme risky event. Got me thinking about go arounds. So thought it would be good for everyone to swallow their pride and post about their first/latest go around.
Mine was flying into leeuwin estate in the southwest, 4pob and alot of fuel. So was still quite heavy. Simpily turned base to early, slightly high an slightly fast, the strip has a downslope about a third the way down and being gravel didnt want to go sliding down the hill at the end of the rw either got to 200ft call going aroind, went around, came back around and actually found there was a lot of runway there. Landed had lunch and got gone to ypjt
Mine was flying into leeuwin estate in the southwest, 4pob and alot of fuel. So was still quite heavy. Simpily turned base to early, slightly high an slightly fast, the strip has a downslope about a third the way down and being gravel didnt want to go sliding down the hill at the end of the rw either got to 200ft call going aroind, went around, came back around and actually found there was a lot of runway there. Landed had lunch and got gone to ypjt
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My latest go around was at YTQY. Coming into land on rwy 35 after a precautionary search only to find a herd of sheep standing in the middle of the bloody runway.! Thought that was bad, came in again for a second attempt to land and just as I flared one sheep ran across the runway, so again punched in full throttle and initiated a go around. And on take off we had to abort aswell, just wasn't our day. 
Same airport in 2010, but because some dope (new guy) from the council thought he could slash up to the edge of the runway while aircraft were trying to land.
Apparently the aircraft discontinuing the approach as he turned for a head on strip on three consecutive passes wasn't a big enough clue...
Apparently the aircraft discontinuing the approach as he turned for a head on strip on three consecutive passes wasn't a big enough clue...
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Apparently there are a lot of wild dogs in the vicinity of Tyabb airport in Victoria. As a result some pilots of warbirds are forced to do go-arounds so as to not damage their aircraft when they hit the poor muts. Perhaps they should call the pound.
Every set of circuits at YMMB usually includes a go around when the tower can't give me clearance by the time I reach the fence because they are overloaded or a student is a little slow getting off the runway.
Why would I care? Its good practice. Establish positive rate of climb, milk the flaps up and ask for an early turn crosswind.
The guys in the YMMB Tower are great. It's a pleasure just talking to them.
Why would I care? Its good practice. Establish positive rate of climb, milk the flaps up and ask for an early turn crosswind.
The guys in the YMMB Tower are great. It's a pleasure just talking to them.
Last edited by Sunfish; 13th Jan 2013 at 18:19.
Agreed.
Quite a few times when doing circuits on 17L/35R I've had to do a go-around for one reason or another....sometimes it's difficult to get the call in with so much radio traffic when it's busy.
On 17R/35L, if the tower hasn't given me a clearance, I give a call on finals if it seems they've forgotten about me.
As for my last go-around, that was yesterday..
Quite a few times when doing circuits on 17L/35R I've had to do a go-around for one reason or another....sometimes it's difficult to get the call in with so much radio traffic when it's busy.
On 17R/35L, if the tower hasn't given me a clearance, I give a call on finals if it seems they've forgotten about me.
As for my last go-around, that was yesterday..
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A little bush strip at Burren Junction, near Moree.
Coming in with a heavy X-wind, and at about 50ft the wind suddenly dropped off to nothing, so it was go around or decorate the tree line to my left
Coming in with a heavy X-wind, and at about 50ft the wind suddenly dropped off to nothing, so it was go around or decorate the tree line to my left
My most recent one as P in C I don't remember but I imagine it would have been either an unstable approach with a student or quite possibly another aircraft lined up in front or too close behind another aircraft on final.
The last one I've had to do where I was actually in control myself was at Ardmore flying a T-67 and was the result of a pedestrian deciding that to save time getting from one side of the airfield to the other he would walk across the runway; that would be about the third go around I've had to do in the last couple of years due to a person on the runway.
The last one I've had to do where I was actually in control myself was at Ardmore flying a T-67 and was the result of a pedestrian deciding that to save time getting from one side of the airfield to the other he would walk across the runway; that would be about the third go around I've had to do in the last couple of years due to a person on the runway.
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YSBK, runway 11L just about to flair, tower call ABC- go around, dog on the RWY.
Nothing like showing a bit of flair when about to flare.
Nothing like showing a bit of flair when about to flare.
Nunc est bibendum
YMML RWY 27. About 20'. Southerly change hit us as we got to 30'. Probably could have fought it on but decided that I was going to have to be [b]VERY/b] good were something else befall us.
It's probably been about 12 months since my last one. I'm probably due again!
I'm probably due for a diversion and a medical issue as well. Perhaps combine 2 out of 3 at some stage.
It's probably been about 12 months since my last one. I'm probably due again!
I'm probably due for a diversion and a medical issue as well. Perhaps combine 2 out of 3 at some stage.
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Mercer, NZ about a month ago... Giles G202... just f.cked up the flare, floated past the point at which I wanted to be on the ground and lost sight of the RWY edge... no brainer... Go Around... quick circuit and was on the ground only a few minutes later... and was a greaser too!
Your first/last GO AROUND
Just ensure your first go-around does not become your last go-around.
I find it somewhat amazing that blokes I fly with tell me all about what they will do if they don't get visual off an instrument approach, but if I ask what they will do if they need to go around off a visual approach, I get lots of blank stares (not all). A go-around can occur at any time, for a whole range of reasons. 2-engine go-arounds seem to be among the most poorly executed items in both the simulator and aircraft.
I find it somewhat amazing that blokes I fly with tell me all about what they will do if they don't get visual off an instrument approach, but if I ask what they will do if they need to go around off a visual approach, I get lots of blank stares (not all). A go-around can occur at any time, for a whole range of reasons. 2-engine go-arounds seem to be among the most poorly executed items in both the simulator and aircraft.