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A300Capt · March 20th, 2004, 09:37

Chances are, the tower is going to see you go missed and start issuing instructions long before you have to come up with an answer. Nothing gets the tower's attention faster than an aircraft going around (especially a large, fast one) when they expected you to land uneventfully.

Having said that, and assuming you haven't canceled your IFR, I would plan on flying the published missed approach procedure if I didn't hear anything from the tower. You're technically still on an IFR flight plan even while flying a visual approach. If you canceled your IFR, I'd fly the TPA with a VFR pattern.

Whenever we brief a visual approach and have it backed up with the ILS, we brief to fly either tower instructions or in lieu of that, the published missed.

March 20th, 2004, 09:37	#6
A300Capt Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Louisville, Kentucky Posts: 726	Re: Missed Approach! or is it? Chances are, the tower is going to see you go missed and start issuing instructions long before you have to come up with an answer. Nothing gets the tower's attention faster than an aircraft going around (especially a large, fast one) when they expected you to land uneventfully. Having said that, and assuming you haven't canceled your IFR, I would plan on flying the published missed approach procedure if I didn't hear anything from the tower. You're technically still on an IFR flight plan even while flying a visual approach. If you canceled your IFR, I'd fly the TPA with a VFR pattern. Whenever we brief a visual approach and have it backed up with the ILS, we brief to fly either tower instructions or in lieu of that, the published missed.