GO AROUND VS OVERSHOOT

4.8 GO AROUND

Chapter 4. Aerodrome control: aircraft 4-15 Doc 9432

4.8.1 Instructions to carry out a missed approach may be given to avert an unsafe situation. When a missed approach is initiated, cockpit workload is inevitably high. Any transmissions to aircraft going around should be brief and kept to a minimum.

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ATC: FASTAIR 345 GO AROUND AIRCRAFT ON THE RUNWAY

PILOT: GOING AROUND FASTAIR 345

4.8.2 Unless instructions are issued to the contrary, an aircraft on an instrument approach will carry out the missed approach procedure and an aircraft operating VFR will continue in the normal traffic circuit.

4.8.3 In the event that the missed approach is initiated by the pilot, the phrase “GOING AROUND” shall be used.

PILOT: GOING AROUND G-CD

ATC: G-CD ROGER REPORT DOWNWIND

OUR MRTF

f. Clearance cancelled and acft not to land. Additional remarks to be added if necessary Note: The civil acft will initiate overshoots as low as minima once going round instruction was given.

(ATC) (C/Sign) GO ROUND (reason) or (C/Sign) GO ROUND FROM BASE (reason) (Pilot) (C/Sign) BASE GOING ROUND

School of Air Traffic (SATC) Phraselogy Handbook

Circumstance: Runway occupied with threshold vacant

TWR: [ACID] AT THE MINIMA GO AROUND.

Circumstance: Runway threshold occupied and will remain so.

TWR: [ACID] GO AROUND FROM BASE THRESHOLD OCCUPIED.

Remarks: Going around is the standard phrase to be use when the ATC want the pilot to discontinue their approach (either from final or CCT). So if the pilot changed his intention from wanting to use the runway to aborting his approach.

As for the phrase “over shoot”, the actual English meaning is “go past”(a point). In the case of of air traffic control, it is for the pilot to indicate that the pilot intent of not to use the runway.

My suggestion:

We, THE AIRFORCE atc should use the term go around when the pilot need to discontinue his approach.