question about go arounds

[atcloser]

question to all air carrier/air taxi pilots from atc...

when you go around (for whatever reason), do you tell your passengers what the reason is or dont say anything???

 

[Erlanger]

You should at an appropriate time, talk to the passengers.

 

[EagleRJ]

I always blame it on the First Officer!

 

[RipCurl]

"Uhhh... ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We're going to have to come around for another attempt at landing on a different runway. The airplane that was infront of us on approach just turned into a smoking hole. So if you'll sit back and relax, we should be pulling up to the gate in juuuuuust about another thirteen minutes."

 

[atrdriver]

I always tell the passengers, right after I tell the flight attendants. it's pretty easy to explain a go around in ATL.

atrdriver

 

[Smoking Man]

I blame it on ATC!

 

[surplus1]

When you have time tell the geese. Keep it simple.

 

[bigsky]

I agree that you need to talk to the people...

However make sure that you are squared away first... workload is probably very heavey initially, and I have seen some people almost forget to fly because they are so busy yapping. I have also wondered about this as FAA wants you to keep paxs informed but this is also breaking sterile cockpit procedures. Just curious how "essential" the FAA considers this?

 

[sf3boy]

Yes, fly the plane first, talk to the pax later. They're going to be mad anyway about something so just be honest and you'll stutter less. I personally blame the captain as for the last 3 days all I heard about was..."screw 170 to the marker, I got a 1350 commute to MSP to get to."

 

[garf12]

are go arounds very common on commericial flights? On the probably 300 flights I have been on I have never had a go around.