Originally Posted by
atpcliff
I have been sent around twice by the tower in VMC. They told/expected us to fly the traffic pattern.
I too have been sent around by the tower in VMC, albeit only once. And the towers response was to fly the pattern at 3000'. But here is the problem I have with that. Patterns can be found on VFR Terminals/Sectionals or the the AFD. But we as airline pilots do not have access to either of those. So... At airports that have special noise abadment procedures, or airports that only use left/left traffic, or airports that have non standard patterns or any of that stuff, how are we supposed to know what is correct in the absence of tower instructions.
Because of this I always brief my ILS to visuals, or visuals backed up by the ILS, to do the published missed.