Flanker From Bulgaria, joined Aug 2005, 517 posts, RR: 1 Posted (2 months 3 days ago) and read 7864 times:
I was driving on I-294 south about 5:45 today when there was a UAL 747 coming in on approach for Rnw 28 and had to go around right before the interstate because of a AF 340 that was positioned for departure on the runway.
Just wondering if anyone else happened to see it or hear about it. I know this type of thing happens a lot, even to me in a Cessna, but man it did seem pretty close.
Stratosphere From United States, joined Sep 2007, 375 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (2 months 3 days ago) and read 7772 times:
Go arounds happen all the time hardly newsworthy... I have been on two myself. Better to go around than to push a bad position...You would be surprised what does not make the news.
Flanker From Bulgaria, joined Aug 2005, 517 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (2 months 3 days ago) and read 7741 times:
Quoting Stratosphere (Reply 1): Go arounds happen all the time hardly newsworthy... I have been on two myself. Better to go around than to push a bad position...You would be surprised what does not make the news.
I am quite familiar. Ive been in a few as a passenger and pic. I know its not something news worthy, just wondering if any spotters saw it and could maybe give a few more details/pics.
Cpd From Australia, joined Jun 2008, 1 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (2 months 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 7390 times:
Quoting Flanker (Reply 2): Those engines sure do spit some smoke out! bouncy goodvibes
Oh, those UAL 747-400s always belch out plenty of smoke. It's a normal thing for them.
UPS MD11 freighters are also very smoky on go-arounds. Very spectacular to see a MD11F go-around at last minute to avoid BA's G-YMMM which was only half way down the runway at the time.
A few months later, the 777 was involved in the incident that ended its flying life.
Flanker From Bulgaria, joined Aug 2005, 517 posts, RR: 1 Reply 7, posted (2 months 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 7348 times:
Quoting Cpd (Reply 6): . Very spectacular to see a MD11F
Few years ago i worked at O'Hare as a cargo guy over on the south ramp. Anyway, I've seen a lot of crazy things from those freighters. Especially at 2-3 am when there is little to no flights coming or going.
Ikramerica From United States, joined May 2005, 14534 posts, RR: 41 Reply 9, posted (2 months 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 7244 times:
Sounds like the AF bird took a little longer to get ready for takeoff than planned for.
When there is a go around at a major airport like this, how do they fit it back into the pattern? Aren't the airways pretty well spaced and full around ORD?
Quoting Malaysia (Reply 8): the reasons were too high on approach and the other was too fast.
had one at LGA. Pilot said the winds kicked up and we were going to land long, and he felt it wasn't a good idea to end up in the river. Got a nice view of NYC as we went around again.
Of all the things to worry about... the Wookie has no pants.
Cpd From Australia, joined Jun 2008, 1 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (2 months 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 7092 times:
Quoting Flanker (Reply 7): Few years ago i worked at O'Hare as a cargo guy over on the south ramp. Anyway, I've seen a lot of crazy things from those freighters. Especially at 2-3 am when there is little to no flights coming or going.
I couldn't believe how quickly it pitched up, and then how it banked over. That was frankly amazing. And the noise - it was thundering away. It was smoking away like a prototype Concorde!
If you look in the database, you'll see my photo of N287UP - that was the plane.
ATCGOD From United States, joined Aug 2006, 579 posts, RR: 1 Reply 11, posted (2 months 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 6693 times:
Quoting Ikramerica (Reply 9): When there is a go around at a major airport like this, how do they fit it back into the pattern? Aren't the airways pretty well spaced and full around ORD?
At a large airport it might be a 20-30 minute wait to find a hole in the sequence but you'll get back in. At a smaller airport like the one I work at it's really never a big deal and unless the weather is IFR they almost always choose to enter the tower pattern back to the field rather then get vectors out for another visual approach. Sometimes traffic prevents this but not very often.
Amazing! I'm surprised, though, that the abort procedure calls for such an early turn to the left, towards the other landing runway. What if the other aircraft had aborted, too? Can anyone shed some light on the abort procedure justification at ORD?
I've only been in one aborted landing, LX22 GVA-JFK March 10, 2007. We were about 5 miles out and had to climb out and make a big turn out to the sea because of slow traffic ahead of us. Nothing major, I don't think the gear was even down yet, but it felt weird to be descending and then all of a sudden pitch up.
C172pic From United States, joined Nov 2000, 74 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (2 months 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 5702 times:
I had to go-around, my first in CRJ200 during IOE, at PHX... capt kept telling me I was getting too close to US 737 ahead of us... when 737 touched down, took sweet ole time on runway, chick controller was screaming at them to exit runway NOW, any exit... anyways, pushed thrust levers forward and started climbing, it was ugly, my callouts, forgot TOGA button, lol... lesson learned, good practice.
Flyboyseven From Canada, joined Feb 2007, 639 posts, RR: 1 Reply 14, posted (2 months 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 5004 times:
This summer while gliding, we made a 73G, 732, and 2 CF-18s go around. The CF-18 pilots were really pissed as they said they only had 3 min fuel remaining when they landed.The 732 sure spat out a lot of smoke from its engines. It was really cool.
As long as the number of take-offs equals the number of landings...you're doing fine.
DTWAGENT From United States, joined Jan 2006, 1015 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (2 months 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 3381 times:
I've been in 2 go arounds. One on Eastern Airlines coming into DTW and the other on DL coming into SRQ. But, that is it for all the years I have been flying.
P3Orion From United States, joined May 2006, 249 posts, RR: 1 Reply 16, posted (2 months 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 3193 times:
Quoting Ikramerica (Reply 9): When there is a go around at a major airport like this, how do they fit it back into the pattern? Aren't the airways pretty well spaced and full around ORD?
When an aircraft goes around the Local controller, working that flight, will coordinate with the other two Locals and a heading will be assigned. We try to issue a heading that will be along the "dump zone" but that is not always the case. Departures climb to 5000, where as go arounds climb to 4000. The Supervisor will call his counterpart at the TRACON with the assigned heading. The aircraft's heading will determine which departure freq. he/she will be assigned.
Quoting ATCGOD (Reply 11): At a large airport it might be a 20-30 minute wait to find a hole in the sequence but you'll get back in.
It doesn't take that long, ten minutes, tops.
"SKW5932 RWY 9R position and hold, traffic three mile final, be ready for an immediate."
StarGuy From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2005, 177 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (2 months 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 2370 times:
I've been in 3 go-arounds, two of them happened one after another and then had to divert SXF-LTN divert to EMA on a 733. The Third Divert was LGW-ANU on a 744. Also had a near miss coming into SFO. Didn't know it was a near miss until after landing when the captain told us why he had to whack up the throttles and pull up so sharply on the final approach.
Stitch From United States, joined exactly 3 years ago today! , 11874 posts, RR: 50 Reply 19, posted (2 months 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 2217 times:
My last go-around was at DEN on UA. Nice thing about Channel 9 is that I heard the call to go-around so I was not surprised when it happened and I took some nice close pics of DEN's central terminal as we motored on by.
They swung us out aways to line up for the far parallel runway, but we were on the ground within 10 minutes.
Jacobin777 From United States, joined Sep 2004, 12414 posts, RR: 54 Reply 20, posted (2 months 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 1546 times:
Quoting ANITIX87 (Reply 12): Amazing! I'm surprised, though, that the abort procedure calls for such an early turn to the left, towards the other landing runway. What if the other aircraft had aborted, too? Can anyone shed some light on the abort procedure justification at ORD?
Don't forget, there is another runway banking starboard..not to mention, there are a lot of planes coming in from that approach just north of ORD (which is the flight path our plane actually took).
The MX plane landed a bit later than we did so I dont' think there would have been a problem..had the MX needed to abort also, we probably would have just flown straight.
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