go missed??

Flying_Corporal

Flying_Corporal

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The tower tells to go missed before you began your descent and before you reach FAF. What do you do?

a) execute missed from you current position
b) continue to MAP and go missed
c) pretend you didn't hear ATC and continue the approach

Thanks!
 
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a) execute missed from you current position

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Not enough info! Depending on where you are, your Missed Approach instructions may be different than the published missed. I get this all the time in my local area (KMSP). You can get the published missed if requested and traffic will allow it.

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b) continue to MAP and go missed

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Again this would depend on the conditions and what ATC says and/or any prior instructions.

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c) pretend you didn't hear ATC and continue the approach

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Uhh, I don't think so. Have you pencil ready so you can take down a phone number.
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Absent specific other instructions, continue to the MAP, but climb immediately to the missed approach altitude, absent other restrivtions.
 
If they just say "go missed" that implies flying the published missed, which means you go to the MAP and fly the missed approach procedure as charted. However, outside the FAF I doubt they would tell you to simply go missed. In the few occasions this has happened to me, my clearance for the approach was cancelled and I was given a vector to fly.
 
Yep I've never heard just "go missed" when someone was way out. They'll usually say something to the effect of "XXXXX, cancel approach clearance, fly heading XXX, climb and maintain X thousand."

If that is all they said to me, I would do exactly that. Climb to the missed procedure altitude, follow the approach course to the MAP, then follow the missed procedure.
 
Where do you come up with these questions?

My response would be "What? Say Again? We haven't begun the approach yet."

And then I would ask to be switched to approach control for vectors.
 
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Where do you come up with these questions?



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Yea, these are good "theory" or "what if" questions that very rarely happen in real life. The tower's not going to just tell you to "go-around" outside or inside the FAF without giving you additional info such as, "fly runway heading maintain XX altitude" or "fly the published missed, maintain XX altitude"". It just doesn't happen in the real world.
 
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Where do you come up with these questions?

My response would be "What? Say Again? We haven't begun the approach yet."

[/ QUOTE ]Thank you John. A good laugh is the best way to start the day.
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Doing practice approaches at LAL, Tower will give us Missed Approach instructions, which generally are NOT the published instructions, and either tell us to go missed before the threshold or continue for the option.

But, usually it's the TOWER that gives us the missed approach call. Not ATC.
 
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But, usually it's the TOWER that gives us the missed approach call. Not ATC.

[/ QUOTE ]True. But read the scenario - "Tower" is giving an instruction to fly the missed approach =before= the airplane crosses the FAF inbound on the approach.
 
Yeah, I read it beforehand. I was putting in my $0.02.

As for your scenario, has that ever happened to you or is it something you were curious about?
 
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Yeah, I read it beforehand. I was putting in my $0.02.

As for your scenario, has that ever happened to you or is it something you were curious about?

[/ QUOTE ]Neither.
 
I would jump all over any interviewer that asked me that. It is a rather unrealistic question.

The correct answer is "I would query ATC to see if they had their coffee yet."
 
a better question would be:

"give me 7 reasons why you would execute a missed approach."

(I got this on my IFR oral last week. I think we picked out at least 6 or 7)
 
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a better question would be:

"give me 7 reasons why you would execute a missed approach."

(I got this on my IFR oral last week. I think we picked out at least 6 or 7)

[/ QUOTE ]Did you include "something got in my eye"?
 
Or the one I had yesterday... Turkey on the runway. Well, not really a missed approach as it was a visual approach, but it certainly was a go round at about 50 AGL.

Ethan
 
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a better question would be:

"give me 7 reasons why you would execute a missed approach."

(I got this on my IFR oral last week. I think we picked out at least 6 or 7)

[/ QUOTE ]Did you include "something got in my eye"?

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Yeah I think I would have answered with sarcasm. That's a stupid test question.
 
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