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I actually was at my local class C and saw a very interesting go around for seperation purposes. There was a C152 about 100 feet off and was just about to tough down on the runway when a learjet came flying in right behind him no farther than 100 yds behind him. The ATC gave the C152 a go around and he barely climbed out before the learjet came whizzing by on the runway pavement. Scariest part is that the C152 was a student pilot from one of the flight schools, must have scared him to death to watch a citation go whizzing by barely missing him. Luckily he came around and we saw the student land about 10 minutes later.

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When I work the pattern at TUS, I'm normally on 11L/29R. GA planes will be using the parallel 11R/29L which isn't that far separated from the larger parallel. On the go, I'll often whiz by a 172 on the upwind, or even race a Citation who's rotating...
 
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Two of my buddies were on Delta coming back from the cayman islands and went around right at the runway at atlanta, they said the captain came on and said the go aroud was due to flap problems. Anyone else ever heard of going around on short final beacause flaps wouldnt extend?

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By "flap problems", does that automatically mean they wouldn't extend? Just wondering if the captain or your friend made that clarification. I'd figure the flaps would be set by short final, but it could've been a couple of potential problems, an inadverent retraction/asymetric....

Or it could've been a BS excuse.
 
my guess is someone botched the approach and needed an excuse to try it again....

I was down at DCA last fall listening to atc and watching traffic with my gf. literally on a 1/4 mile final(over gravelly point---the park at the approach end of 19) an AA 757 went around...pretty cool. he came back in about 15 minutes later. when he intitiated the GA he mustve been 300 ft agl. pretty wild...he never did say what happened
 
Hey FlyChicaga, had an interesting one Friday on a Windy City flight (3347 GRR-MDW).
We flew to the southeast of the city, passed over Gary, traveled inland a ways, turning north, then NNE, and looked to be setting up on a left base (heading something like 030), and pretty low. Then, instead of turning final (landing one of the 31's I think) we turned right, and climbed, passing south of downtown out over the lake. The weird part was they dropped the gear after making the turn away from MDW. We then went out over the lake, turned south, went almost back to Gary, came ashore at the oil/gas tanks (whatever), then flew an almost identical approach as the first time, only turning left and landing.

I presume that we did the "tour" for spacing, but dropping gear where we did seemed a little strange. Maybe just did it to stay configured and slow?

BTW, pretty blond in the left seat.... I didn't pay attention to the dude on the right.
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Doug, I covered a couple of JC bases Friday, 'cause after flying on Chicago Express, I flew Delta MDW-ATL, and ATL-PNS (Mad-dog). The PNS landing was different because we had an oversold (read heavy) flight. The Cap came on prior to the approach and gave a nice little speech about setting the brakes to "maximum" because of the weight. The landing was extra-firm (that's when I knew it wasn't Mr. Taylor at the helm), with strong braking action to finish.

Deplaning, the dude ahead of me makes one of those "you must have been a carrier pilot" to the flight crew. They laughed and took it well...
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Not sure there Steve. It was really windy the past few days in MDW, so it might have just been a separation error and revectoring for spacing. Not sure about the gear though. I think those tanks are around 7 miles from the airport, so they might have just began configuring out there to keep the speed slow and power up.

Funny, I had to think what day it was because I flew 3347 GRR-MDW today!
 
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Not sure there Steve. It was really windy the past few days in MDW, so it might have just been a separation error and revectoring for spacing. Not sure about the gear though. I think those tanks are around 7 miles from the airport, so they might have just began configuring out there to keep the speed slow and power up.

Funny, I had to think what day it was because I flew 3347 GRR-MDW today!

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The funny part was that the gear came down while we were still east-bound, over land and not even due south of downtown yet. Just after we turned away from the field. Not a big deal, just curiosity.... Speed slow and power up makes sense.

If you get an overnight in GRR let me know, I'll buy a quick beer...
 
My cousin was on a flight from California (not sure where) to Chicago this weekend. They were warned before they took off that it would be an extremely turbulent flight and that they were to keep their seatbelts fastened at all times.

As they were descending into Chicago, my cousin, a frequent flyer who is not afraid to fly, said that it was the first time she thought that "this was it" because it was so incredibly rough.

She said that they were (what she assumed was) on final, and all of a sudden the engines revved, the plane took a DRASTIC nose up and banked to the right (Go-around).

The Captain came on the PA and told everyone that there was a plane on the runway, so they had to go missed.

So, yup - appears to have been the weekend for Commercial Go-arounds.
 
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I actually was at my local class C and saw a very interesting go around for seperation purposes. There was a C152 about 100 feet off and was just about to tough down on the runway when a learjet came flying in right behind him no farther than 100 yds behind him. The ATC gave the C152 a go around and he barely climbed out before the learjet came whizzing by on the runway pavement. Scariest part is that the C152 was a student pilot from one of the flight schools, must have scared him to death to watch a citation go whizzing by barely missing him. Luckily he came around and we saw the student land about 10 minutes later.

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?????? Which type was it??
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Doug, I covered a couple of JC bases Friday, 'cause after flying on Chicago Express, I flew Delta MDW-ATL, and ATL-PNS (Mad-dog). The PNS landing was different because we had an oversold (read heavy) flight. The Cap came on prior to the approach and gave a nice little speech about setting the brakes to "maximum" because of the weight. The landing was extra-firm (that's when I knew it wasn't Mr. Taylor at the helm), with strong braking action to finish.

Deplaning, the dude ahead of me makes one of those "you must have been a carrier pilot" to the flight crew. They laughed and took it well...
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no way..i live in pensacola..gulf breeze actually...what were you down there for?? I always love the approaches into 17/35... you can tell the pilots that have been flown in there before..they dont mess around and get the maddog down..others float and end up braking extremely hard or like some end up off the runway in the sand
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However when doing my flight training there in the tomahawk...i had plenty of room hahah
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no way..i live in pensacola..gulf breeze actually...what were you down there for?? I always love the approaches into 17/35... you can tell the pilots that have been flown in there before..they dont mess around and get the maddog down..others float and end up braking extremely hard or like some end up off the runway in the sand
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However when doing my flight training there in the tomahawk...i had plenty of room hahah
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My in-laws were in Gulf Shores since the first of the year. I flew down Friday night, then drove them back to Michigan on Saturday and Sunday.

I guess you could call it a work trip.

Scored lots of points with the boss, though.
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I haven't been in a commercial jet when it's gone around, but I've seen a couple of DC-10s go around at MSP due to wind shear. Quite a sight !
 
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