I flew in on Sunday afternoon to SFO and our flight had to do a go around since the wind was too strong on final approach, when we landed on the next attempt the cabin erupted in applause! This was the second time I've experienced this landing approach out of probably 200+ flights in my lifetime to SFO. In a simulator, I "flew" to Hong Kong's old Kai Tak airport and the right seater in the simulator was a retired BA pilot that used to fly into Kai Tak regularly, we had to line up w/a orange and white checkered aviation marker called Checkerboard Hill and then bank to the right pretty hard for final approach.