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  • Chapter 9: Basic Flight Maneuvers › Go-Around

    Go-Around A go-around is a procedure for remaining airborne after an intended landing is discontinued. A go-around may be necessary when: • Instructed by the control tower. • Traffic conflict occurs. • The helicopter is in a position from which ... approach. Any time an approach is uncomfortable, incorrect, or potentially dangerous, abandon the approach. The decision to make a go-around should be positive and initiated before a critical situation develops. When the decision is made, carry it out without…

  • Chapter 9: Techniques of Flight Instruction › Assessment of Piloting Ability › Practice Landings

    first third of the runway to ensure stopping before the end of the runway. This means teaching learners to go-around if they do not touch down within that distance. Instructors should also stress the need for a go-around ... opportunity to stop the flight if necessary. When instructing in a glider (other than a motor glider), a go-around will not be possible. Instructors should teach learners to make low energy landings based on current weather and wind conditions…

  • Chapter 11: Helicopter Emergencies and Hazards › Autorotation › Technique (How to Practice)

    have the engines begin to develop enough power to rejoin the needles by approximately 100 feet AGL. If a go-around is to be made, the cyclic control should be moved forward to resume forward flight. In transition from ... practice autorotation to a go-around, exercise caution to avoid an altitude-airspeed combination that would place the helicopter in an unsafe area of its height/velocity diagram. This is one of the most difficult maneuvers to perform…

  • Chapter 11: Helicopter Emergencies and Hazards › Common Errors › Autorotation with Turns

    certificated flight instructor (CFI), when intervening) immediately abort the maneuver and execute a smooth power recovery and go-around. It is important for the CFI who is intervening at this point to remember that the go-around…

  • Chapter 13: Effective Aeronautical Decision-Making › Risk Management › Using the 3P Model to Form Good Safety Habits

    there are physical boundaries and that they can affect the options available should the pilot need to conduct a go-around or abort the approach. Again, the pilot uses mental checkpoints to ensure an early decision is made to conduct ... go-around, if needed. The selected go-around or escape route will be in line with the selected approach/ departure path and generally into the wind. As you may have noticed, one identified hazard and its correlating risk management action…

  • Chapter 9: Techniques of Flight Instruction › Practical Flight Instructor Strategies

    workload management in the learner. ⦁ During landing—conduct stabilized approaches, maintain desired airspeed on final, demonstrate good judgment for go-arounds, wake turbulence, traffic, and terrain avoidance. Correct faulty approaches and landings. Make touchdowns on the centerline in the first…