Originally Posted by
FlyerJosh
You guys are really making mountains out of molehills here.
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When I fly into a controlled airport in visual conditions, I brief "If we have to go around/missed we will go straight ahead to X feet or as instructed by ATC". I figure once we get established in the climb and cleaned back up, then either ATC will tell us what to do, or ask our intentions.
9/10, they say "fly runway heading, maintain x feet, contact departure".
That's cool -- but's let's talk about the 1/10 times, because you want to be legal all of the time, right?
Let's say it's VMC (your words were "visual conditions"), but you are cleared the ILS. Tower clears you to land, but as you near the runway you observe a large animal in the touchdown zone. As you advance the power to reject the landing, you key the microphone to talk to tower. No answer. You start cleaning up the airplane, raising the landing gear, and call the tower again. Still, no answer.
What's the plan now?
Does your answer change if it's nighttime?
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