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Old Mar 14, 2019, 11:15 am
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Being pedantic, we only tend to call them ‘go-arounds’ when they occur inside of 4nm from touchdown. Outside of this it’s termed a break-off.

The missed approach procedure climbs to an initial altitude of 3000ft, so at 2750ft no crew is going to select TOGA power to climb 250ft.

What will happen is ATC will give a heading, having coordinated with other controllers first, and then once the aircraft is breaking out of the approach, a climb may be given.
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