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I agree that most GA's, especially a planned one deserves smooth control, but I was thinking emergency situations. I think of the one time I did a GA in which I mashed the power levers up ... I had briefed the new FO that the wx might not allow a landing out of an ILS and was prepared to do the MAP, but at DH we saw the lights and continued the approach, at about 100' or less we settled into a fog bank and I lost all visual cues to continue the approach, so I got out of there.
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I think you might be confusing a few people here when you associate a go around with an emergency... A go-around is a normal maneuver, whether you execute it at 20 feet or 200 feet above the ground, the procedure is the same. And the procedure usually calls for max power, respecting engines limitations of course; in an emergency, let's say a windshear recovery, you want all the fresh air the fans can give you.
Pitch and power comes more or less at the same time, but you want initiate the pitch first, and then clean up the airplane.
On a jet, a go-around is not an easy maneuver, when you have 2 engines, (all the engines...) you can satellite yourself quite fast!
Always exciting though...