Why abort a landing

A go-around will also be initiated any time an approach becomes unstable. Glidepath deviations, a too-high rate-of-descent, severe crosswinds, a windshear alarm — any of these may trigger one. As for the steepness or suddenness of the climb, that is the manner in which any go-around is executed. The safest direction is up — as quickly as practical. For pilots, executing a go-around is very straightforward, but also quite work-intensive.

The first step is advancing the power to go-around thrust, retracting flaps and slats to an intermediate position, and rotating to a target pitch — somewhere around 15 degrees nose-up. Once a climb is established, the landing gear is raised.

Flaps and slats are then retracted, followed by additional power and pitch adjustments. Once at level-off, the FMS may need to be reprogrammed, the autoflight components reset, checklists run, the weather checked, and so on.

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Reaching for the runway, the huge plane flares, floats a little, then touches down with a wiggle. But instead of hearing the roar of reverse thrust and feeling powerful brakes start to slow the plane, the passengers are pushed back into their seats as the 's massive and mighty GE90 turbofans quickly spool up to takeoff thrust. With most of the fuel used up during the lengthy flight, the now lightly loaded jetliner pitches up and rockets into the air, climbing quickly away from the runway.

It is therefore essential for flight crew to familiarise themselves with any limitations which may be applicable to their aircraft type in this respect. Because the go around is initiated beyond and below the published missed approach point, obstacle clearance may be compromised. In most cases this is not a significant factor but, if the published missed approach has a turn which starts at the MAP or if there is a non standard gradient published, obstacle clearance becomes an issue.

In these cases, use of the engine failure on takeoff flightpath for the runway in use, if one exists, instead of the missed approach procedure, would provide the appropriate safety. Obviously, this eventuality would have to be considered as part of the approach planning - it is simply too late at the baulked landing decision point to try and come up with an alternate plan.