Nerve-racking 'go-arounds' routine for pilots

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You're finally getting home after a grueling business trip. Your flight is just about ready to land. The landing gear is down, and then all of a sudden, you aren't descending anymore. The gear comes back up and the nose points skyward.

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[Dammy]

Bunch of horse feathers that it's routine for the pilot to do "go-arounds" which is most likely executing a missed approach. Pilot stress is much greater at the second attempt then it is for a typical first attempt. Typically it's going to be weather related such as reaching MDA (Minimum Decent Altitude) and not seeing the runway which means going missed approach. Then it's off to the races again as approach has to either let the pilot go to the missed approach holding pattern and then fit them into the sequence or vector them for spacing and fit them back into landing sequence as they delay other inbound flights and as the controllers get worried that the airport might have to be shut down do to weather which will cascade effects to flights en route to the same airport which means they might have to go to an alternative and the system goes into high gear to handle this air traffic mess. Pilot is now stressed, can he get it down without breaking FAA rules of MDA, will the boss be pissed he has to go to the alternative? How much of his 45 minutes of spare fuel (this is additional to fuel to reach the alternative airport) is being eaten up by these attempts? How crappy is the weather conditions at the alternative airport?

Now if it's just runway congestion, it's not that big of a deal, but if it's in a regional or major airline, this is going to delay stuff and that puts stress on the Pilot since he is burning time/fuel then the company is being paid for by the passengers. Go arounds might be routine for student pilots or low time private pilots who h0rk up their approach bad enough to execute a go around, but it's not routine for commercial pilots.