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We rarely do them and when we do they usually don’t go as planned. Your instructors always told you to be ready for one and be spring loaded to perform one. We hear many accidents and incidents of pilots performing one with no success. What are we talking about? The go around. In this episode we will discuss how you can have a successful go around every time you fly.
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Our successful and not so successful go-arounds.
What is a successful go-around?
Why go around?
Situations such as air traffic control (ATC) requirements
- unexpected appearance of hazards on the runway
- overtaking another airplane
- wind shear
- wake turbulence
- mechanical failure
- unstable approach
How to make all your go arounds successful.
- Decide early
- Unstabilized approach
- Power and Pitch up.
- Don’t point at the ground.
- Assure airspeed is going up and altitude is not going down.
- Know your airplane. Most planes pitch up but some pitch down when applying power.
Go arounds are a normal maneuver not an emergency.
Why we don’t go around when we should
- Mission driven
- We feel it will reflect negatively upon us as pilots
- Get-there-itis
- Pressure from passengers
- Plane needs to be back at the FBO soon
After Landing Checklist:
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Links Mentioned In The Podcast:
NASA ASRS Callback Newsletter – Go-Arounds We Wish Were Better https://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/publications/callback/cb_463.html
Controlled Flight Into Terrain, Korean Air Flight 801, Boeing 747-300, HL7468 https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/AAR0001.aspx
“You Can Always Go Around” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqFTD-Bqwl8
Somatogravic illusion. BEA study https://www.bea.aero/etudes/asaga/asaga.study.pdf
Good topic. I’ve had unplanned go-arounds in two of my last three flights, all in a Cessna 172. The first due to porpoising on the landing, and the second due to a runway incursion while on final.
The first one I was very happy with, I managed to perform it essentially by the book, despite being shaken up a bit by the bad landing attempt. This was my first time experiencing a porpoise on landing, I was very satisfied with my response. The second attempt was much better, actually my best landing of the night.
The second, while it should have been technically easier, as I was still a few hundred feet above ground, was not as satisfying as it took me much longer to remember to clean up the aircraft. All-in-all it was successful, as I was able to rejoin the traffic pattern and land on the next pass, frustrating in the sense that I let my annoyance at being cut-off distract me from re-configuring the airplane promptly. It was certainly a good learning experience.