Originally Posted by
BeatNavy
I don't think you read the second one completely. It is pretty clear. Missed approach, go around, call it what you want, you gotta have fuel for it before you take off, no matter what the weather or the circumstance of the go around. If its a surprise, it doesn't matter, this LOI clarifies the fact that you have to have fuel for a go around or missed at your destination regardless of whether or not there is an alternate.
"Regardless of whether you are dispatched without a designated alternate airport, you must consider a possible missed approach at the destination airport (note that the rule does not say missed approach at alternate destination airport) in your required fuel calculations."
This is really basic instrument stuff. Yes. You have to have fuel to your destination. You have to have fuel for the "missed approach procedure" (at the destination only) and then fly to most distant alternate (assuming 2 alternates ) and then 45 min.
Example: Aspen. The missed approach is fuel consuming especially if your alternate is in the opposite direction the missed requires.
This is very different than an unknowable go around in Linkon Nebraska.
What if you did two go arounds? Are you in violation for not planning on that? The end of the FAA interpret says just that.