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How to Perform a Go-Around (The Right Way)

Pilot Institute

In this article, we’ll cover everything you need to know to make safe, controlled go-arounds every time. A bad approach results in a bad landing. A go-around is a maneuver performed to abort or reject a landing on the final approach or once the aircraft has already touched down. Go-arounds have little margin for error.

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Triple Threat of Limitations

Plane and Pilot

And the finest example of a Cirrus SR22 is not going to want to lift a full load out of a backcountry strip on a warm afternoon with a density altitude reading five digits. Can you fly a zero-thrust, single-engine approach to minimums today? That optimistic outlook doesn’t apply to pilots with rusty skills.