Shock and Horror! Go arounds are normal!

[Guest Jake.f]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/at-national-airport-aborted-landings-are-not-uncommon/2010/09/20/AFJz39xB_story.html

 

What is interesting is not really the content of this story, but rather the way it is presented.

 

For me personally I actually hope to get a go-around on a commercial flight sometime, I think it would be fun!

 

 

[Owi]

Clearly an un-informed journo with an ambition to get a sensational story in. Or maybe that was the plan? Never mind the boring truth.

 

 

[Exadios]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/at-national-airport-aborted-landings-are-not-uncommon/2010/09/20/AFJz39xB_story.htmlWhat is interesting is not really the content of this story, but rather the way it is presented.

 

For me personally I actually hope to get a go-around on a commercial flight sometime, I think it would be fun!

Not really. Go rounds are fun for neither the passenger or the airline company. For the passenger it means delays and missed connections and for the airline it converts are barely viable business model into an nonviable one.

 

 

[Spin]

I tend to agree, I've sat in the back of an airliner going around on several occasions and much as I'd rather they did that instead of pressing on regardless, I was acutely aware that there had to be something "wrong" in the sense of not normal for that to happen. Probably a case of a little bit of knowledge being dangerous.

 

On one occasion it was a route check for a new recruit - coincidently a young bloke who had done some of my PPL training and he hadn't been in a stabilised approach by the required height, must say I quite enjoyed seeing his white face afterward, he had been very difficult to satisfy in a C152:oh yeah:. It was obvious from the way the power kept being adjusted quite noticeably and the alternating light and heavy sensation seated in the tail of the aircraft that things weren't going entirely smoothly up front.

 

Another was viewed from the jump seat and it was interesting to see just how busy the cockpit of an airliner gets. I believe the newer, all singing, dancing models have things fairly automated - push the TOGA button and follow the bars on the flight director at least for the first part, but this was an old 200 series 737, so very much steam driven, manual technology.

 

 

[Guest davidh10]

I believe that during the recent Avalon Airshow, someone decided to land their light plane on the main Avalon runway, contrary to all airshow information and Notams, and causing an A380 to go-around. After that it is alleged that the pilot proceeded to demonstrate further ignorance of aviation regulations to CASA, including telling them that they had no jurisdiction! Apart from loss of license, he will apparently receive the bill for the go-around. I suspect that won't be the end of the matter.

 

 

[Spin]

David that's gold! Unlikely as it might seem I sometimes have a twinge of understanding for CASA's position, hearing that sort of story. I find though that a beer or similar fortifying drink soon gets rid of said twinge.

 

 

[dazza 38]

I believe that during the recent Avalon Airshow, someone decided to land their light plane on the main Avalon runway, contrary to all airshow information and Notams, and causing an A380 to go-around. After that it is alleged that the pilot proceeded to demonstrate further ignorance of aviation regulations to CASA, including telling them that they had no jurisdiction! Apart from loss of license, he will apparently receive the bill for the go-around. I suspect that won't be the end of the matter.

Imagine the fuel bill, for the A 380 Go Around, Ouch