MIA767 From United States, joined Aug 2005, 19 posts, RR: 0 Posted (2 years 9 months 11 hours ago) and read 1057 times:
I was heading back home this afternoon it was about 6p I knew MP645 AMS-MIA would arrive sometime soon so I decided to stop by the airport to see if I'd catch it to my luck 3 planes later I see it coming down towards runway 9 at MIA but I noticed the plane was coming in at a very high altitude and it was coming down pretty fast!! I for a moment thought something bad was going to happen then all of a sudden I hear this very loud sound as the captain applied full power retrated the wheels and started to climb making some very steep left turn. I stayed there to see it go around then like at around 6:25p I see it coming down this time everything was done perfectly and the flight was ended with a very smooth landing...what a way to end a 10 hour flight!! I think I may have overreacted to this but it just wasn't your typical Go-around.. It was pretty exciting to watch and I was very happy to see it land.
Airfinair From United States, joined Dec 1999, 609 posts, RR: 2 Reply 1, posted (2 years 9 months 9 hours ago) and read 984 times:
Go-arounds are great to watch. I remember the first one I can remember, an Iberoa A343 approaching 27L at ORD around '98. He was about 1/2 mile from touchdown, and to hear him applying max thrust.....That scared the )%)#(&)#$ out of me! Now, go-arounds are no biggy. I saw two at ORD today. An AA MD-80 and a UA 735. (I'm surprised the 'media" didn't write some stupid article about it, or have a "special report" on the TV about it tonite. )
Miafll From United States, joined Jun 2000, 136 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (2 years 9 months 9 hours ago) and read 935 times:
I saw it today too!..Coming home on the 826 (the highway next to the airport)Many people were hitting their brakes beacuse the plane was at such a weird angle.
Pgv From United States, joined Feb 2006, 124 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (2 years 9 months 8 hours ago) and read 877 times:
Quoting MIA767 (Thread starter): and started to climb making some very steep left turn
Quoting LVTMB (Reply 5): SOP would have been a right turn
Yes...MA for 9 sends you out to Virginia Key so as to avoid traffic on 26L/8R. I don't know if the worst pilots in the world fly into MIA or what. But I see more missed approaches executed on 27/9. Hell that still leaves 4k ft to play with even in a 74. Granted I am there a lot, but 30/12 is a lot trickier than anything else.
Larspl From Netherlands, joined Apr 2002, 397 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (2 years 8 months 4 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 523 times:
Quote: Isn't it usual that on the outbound leg the Captain is in command and on the inbound flight the First Officer?
well what is 'usual'. you have the usual 'its writen in the manual', the usual: 'usually this and that happens'. but usually the capten and first officer just talk about it.
KPDX From United States, joined Dec 2005, 1525 posts, RR: 3 Reply 13, posted (2 years 8 months 4 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 486 times:
Wow, cool! Ive seen a go around before when I was at KPDX spotting with S12PPL! Heres a picture I took, its a Alaska Airlines MD-82 doing a go around because of birds, this was quite rescent, and my first time seeing one.
Heres the picture I took You can clearly see some of the birds in that picture
KPDX
YYZYYT From Canada, joined Apr 2005, 572 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (2 years 8 months 4 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 418 times:
Quoting N754PR (Reply 3): P.S. How did you know the Captain was in command?
One would hope the captain was "in command"...
Now, was he pilot flying?
More seriously, do I recall reading somewhere that the decision to discontinue an approach can be made by either pilot (on the understanding thet if either calls it both will proceed to go around), or is it the captain's call (i.e., whether he is flying or not?). Or is that a matter for each airline?
I am thinking of the AF runway overrun, and the (baseless) speculation in the media (and even here) that the pilots disagred about whether to do a touch and go or slow when they landed long.
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