Originally Posted by
pipe
So here's a question for ya. You forget the gear, you whitewash the checklist, and then when you go to final flaps you hear the GPWS and you lower the gear.
You utter an expletive, lower the gear, and get three green. Do you go around?
I know my answer. I can tell you with certainty that some (if not all) airplanes do not send FOQA data unless/until you land from an unstabilized approach. Go-around and the data goes to the circular file.
This may not be true for every airplane, but it is certainly food for thought.
Pipe
I think I'm agreeing with you here, but I just want to clarify...
Yeah. You go around. It's just that easy.
Then you land safely. You debrief and figure out what got you into that position. And then you file an ASAP report when you get to your hotel room so that whatever stupidity put you on an unstable approach can be reviewed so that the next poor bastard walking in your shoes doesn't end up in the same position.
Mistakes happen. Good pilots learn from them.