Miss opportunity: for-real missed approaches are rare, but knowing in advance where you're going to go makes it manageable. It's all a matter of making the best of the opportunity.(INSTRUMENT FLIGHT)

From: Aviation Safety | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: Burnside, Joseph E. | Copyright information

I'm either lucky or I don't fly enough: In more than 30 years of flying airplanes for personal transportation, I've had to execute a for-real missed approach in IMC exactly twice. On both occasions, weather was the main culprit. At least that's my excuse. Both flights ended after a successful ILS approach. Of course, those two occasions don't include the trips I delayed or didn't make for weather-related reasons.

In more than one instance, I've waited out weather but sti...

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