BA 747 go around
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This forum is titled "Spotters corner" and is the forum to which posters are directed by the managers if you do not belong to the privileged classes:
If the poster was intrigued, puzzled, baffled etc and wondered about a certain aspect of the airline/aircraft/airport operation, this would indeed be the appropriate place to post his/her query.
There is, in my view, no need to belittle the poster for asking something that may be blindingly obvious to the over qualified experts. Remember, once you too knew sod all! (And probably asked the same sort of question).
If the poster was intrigued, puzzled, baffled etc and wondered about a certain aspect of the airline/aircraft/airport operation, this would indeed be the appropriate place to post his/her query.
There is, in my view, no need to belittle the poster for asking something that may be blindingly obvious to the over qualified experts. Remember, once you too knew sod all! (And probably asked the same sort of question).
Our flight back from holiday performed one last year and the tension amongst the passengers was palpable not least with one from my party who practically fainted.
If you take one bucket n spade trip a year anything that deviates from the norm is likely to cause concern.
I thought it was a great chance for a bit of local sightseeing.
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There appears to have been another at Heathrow today, totally unnoticed by me, despite the fact I was there photographing aircraft about a mile before the threshold. A Turkish A330 passed for the usual photo opp and disappeared beyond some houses as usual. A few minutes later, I was sat in my car (trying to thaw out!) when I looked up and was surprised to see in the distance in the general direction of NW of the airport and there was an aircraft flying, some miles away, in a N Easterly direction. It turned out to be the Turkish A330. No fuss, no unexpected noises between my last sighting and the current. The quietest go around I have ever seen!
Go arounds always feel much more violent than they are because they always happen after a period of relatively low power and nose attitude. It's about perception. Perception is not reality. The average newspapers' description of any passenger talking about a go around usually makes it sound as if they were in an F18, yet the EXACT SAME PERFORMANCE a few hours ago at take off deserves no comment whatsoever, because it was expected.
From a pilots perspective a go around, missed approach or whatever way you describe it is a total non-event and certainly not an incident so I really do not understand your obsession with it.
From a pilots perspective a go around, missed approach or whatever way you describe it is a total non-event and certainly not an incident so I really do not understand your obsession with it.
