Too high. Go Around. What's your PA?

jynxyjoe said:
Was he driving angry?
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Nice! "Never drive angry." Apparently that was all improv by Bill Murray.



I have not had to do a go around . . . .yet . . . .for being too high. I ask myself what would Quagmire do? Hmmmmm. . . . The temptation to simply say the tower asked us to do it would be very great for me. :D
 
Why even explain?

"Hey folks, sorry, we're going to take this one around and try that landing again."
 
I would say something to the effect of "Unfortunately, we were not getting the conditions we were looking for in a good approach...so we're choosing to back track a wee bit and make sure we can give you a good, safe approach to the airport...shouldn't add more than xx minutes and we'll have you on the ground in..." It doesn't really directly place the blame on anyone, but doesn't take any blame off us either, because we are responsible.
 
"Well, folks. The company wants us to land right between the first 1000 and 1500 ft of runway. If we're not gonna be able to do that for some reason, well, they want us to go around. Following the glideslope on that instrument approach puts us at 1600 feet down the runway, so we're gonna try again on different runway."

Okay, not really. Just underlining what a nuts policy that is, though. If you're gonna be in the touchdown zone, you should be good. Not here. Why? We're "simply the best."
 
Thanks for all of your responses. This arose when I heard SWA tell the tower at SEA that he was too high and going around. No idea if ATC left him too high or cut his base too close, or if there was some other reason. It made me wonder what the pilot would say on the PA.

The pilot had what I consider a "classic" airline pilot radio voice: deep and southern (though possibly Texan, which is a little different, I know). I'm not from the south and I know that being from the south doesn't make one a better or worse pilot. Still, I have an irrational affinity for southern accents on the radio. Frankly, if I was a pax on that SWA flight, that pilot could've told me that we're going around so he could buzz his friend's house and I would've been fine with it.
 
sorry folks, two airplanes cant occupy the same space at the same time so I elected to go around. Thanks for you patience. I used that one last time if I remember correctly
 
Center_Mid said:
Thanks for all of your responses. This arose when I heard SWA tell the tower at SEA that he was too high and going around. No idea if ATC left him too high or cut his base too close, or if there was some other reason. It made me wonder what the pilot would say on the PA.

The pilot had what I consider a "classic" airline pilot radio voice: deep and southern (though possibly Texan, which is a little different, I know). I'm not from the south and I know that being from the south doesn't make one a better or worse pilot. Still, I have an irrational affinity for southern accents on the radio. Frankly, if I was a pax on that SWA flight, that pilot could've told me that we're going around so he could buzz his friend's house and I would've been fine with it.
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They always go as fast as possible... maybe just a little late slowing down?
 
Nick said:
If it's a missed approach due to traffic on the runway then I say just that. "The airport is busy and once in a while they misjudge how close we are to landing and so we were told to come back around."

If we really did go around because we were still too fast and too high, I say that too. Last time I made that PA it was easy because we had been trying to help ATC the whole time and it just ended up not working out.

We were landing in TYS. I said something to the effect of,

"ladies and gentlemen, as you noticed we were all set up to land when we climbed back up again and we're now coming back around to the same runway for another approach to land. Due to other aircraft in the area, the air traffic controller here left us higher up than usual and we told him we would do everything we could to help him out and get down to the proper altitude in time. Unfortunately we've had a tailwind the whole way down and that makes it more difficult for us to do that, and we waited until our decision point to see if it would work but unfortunately we still were above the speed we wanted to be at for a normal, safe approach so we're circling back around the airport and we'll be on the ground in about five minutes."

I would not favor lying on the PA because those in the back that travel on a weekly basis could probably easily see that you're too fast.
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How much of that do you actually think 99% of the passengers heard and or understood? I highlighted what I think is a start.

Hacker pretty much has it covered. They can inquire further if the so desire as they deplane.
 
windowseat said:
How much of that do you actually think 99% of the passengers heard and or understood? I highlighted what I think is a start.

Hacker pretty much has it covered. They can inquire further if the so desire as they deplane.
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I probably typed about 30% more than what was really said, but I think mostly all of them understood all of it because a lot of them said "thanks for explaining that!" to me as they deplaned.

I typically never stood at the door during disembarkment on that aircraft (not enough room) but for something like this, I made a point to if the captain didn't because I'd rather have someone ask us a question than fire off a letter to the company and then we get a call later on about something routine.
 
a drunk pool hall hag in Reno?

"Uh, hey folks, we had to go around because some drunk pool hall hag was smearing her lipstick all over the numbers down there...giggity...we're going to take it around one time here and see if we can't get the federales to peel her off'a my runway...thanks for your patience, and we'll have you on the ground in a few minutes."
 
My reply is a Skywest RJ landed long again and didn't get off in time so tower sent us around. But than again I never hear any complaints from the back..... ;)
 
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