Go around? o.0 meaning turn around...?

It's for when you're aborting your landing.

Oh, lovely ^^ that's nice to have. Ahh gotta love planes, I like flying ^^

what do these do? switch a light on or set the throttle to full so you can get the airspeed back up and not touch the ground or something.

can i have a clue?

It's essentially the latter.

interesting, i never knew such things could be.

With SCIENCE on your side, anything is possible.

*Toasts to science.*

To science!

on second thought, maybe not. i have to fly a plane later.

*Tear.*

what? it's only a virtual plane.

no matter what kind of aircraft, real or simulated, flying a plane on alcohol is pretty hard.

It's more exciting. 8D

open cockpit? lost your goggles on the last flight?

just grab a set of beer goggles. you'll feel great.

It commands the flight director bars wings level and somewhere around 15 degrees nose up. It may also sequence the missed approach procedure in the FMS (Flight Management System).

if he's coming in too slow won't the sudden change in pitch cause a stall?

No. Its a subtle change in pitch. Its not a radical change to nose up attitude. Besides, If he's coming in too slow, he has other problems.....like running out of altitude before his engines can spool (spin up) to full thrust for climb. Maybe a tailstrike if he's lucky at that point.

i assume 727's are poor gliders?

No, most of the big jets are 10:1 or better (10 forward for every 1 down) but low and slow and dirty (gear down, slats down, flaps down) is no place to be indecisive. Up until the point of no return, you can balk the approach and go around, once you commit to land, you land.

thanks

i.e. Turkish Airlines 1951.

Oh, and it will also disconnect the autopilot. Forgot about that one.

You hit the TO/GA button as you are advancing the thrust levers for the missed approach/go around. Also, while it is not a subtle maneuver you also don't just yank the nose up. The airplane will still descend a little just because you are changing the direction of a lot of weight and it has a ton of momentum. You should not be making an approach in a jet with the engines at idle especially if they are larger/older engines since it will take some time for them to spool up. Like irreverent said they should not be coming in too slow. Even at ref there they still have a 30% over stall speed cushion. Fully configured, most jets require a fair amount of power to maintain speed and glide path. For example, in the Lear 60 I generally approach with about 60% N1 if I am fully configured. With that much power the response time for the engine is very short. Also, you generally would not want to use take off power during a go around as it will give you a bit of a wild ride.

you two are useful. i didn't previously know ANY of this stuff.

hehe woot! TOGA toggles! very nice pic, depth of field is an awesome touch to the already awesome airplane.

Danke!

STAND 'EM UP!

lol, you need to put up more closeups like this, so awesome

Nice :B

gotta love the macro function on them cameras, eh?

Didn't actually use the macro function for this one. xD

Lovely 727's. Such a shame those are becoming steadily rarer for passenger flights 'cause they're fast and reliable.

Used to fly for Morningstar/FedEx.