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Old Dec 13, 2018, 5:01 pm
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DeanB
 
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I had two go-arounds coming into INN (Innsbruck) last Xmas, then diverted to MUC. Apparently it's fairly notorious as it's in a valley with frequent blankets of cloud & not much room to manoeuvre if there's a low cloud-base.

The only other time (probably out of 700-ish flights) was a bush pilot in Namibia, coming into a desert camp. Decided it was a bit too high/fast an approach, and did a *very* low ?-shaped go-around and came in from the opposite direction. I could see individual leaves on the trees, and feel the plane sliding down the line of the wings on the turn. Asked the pilot afterwards how high we were on the turn - I thought 200-300ft. She replied "nope, I was watching out for the telegraph poles".
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