Missed Approaches

[adthelad 0]

Hi,I am on on final approach with flaps full and speed about 140 knots. I decide to go around and so increase power and pitch the nose up while selecting flaps 20. when i have positive rate of climb and i lift gear up but as the flaps are still retracting i will receive a gear warning sound. Is this warning typical or to be expecting during a go around?Thanks,Adam Roberts

[BashfulBonanza 0]

Depends on your aircraft. Some don't even have gear warning sounds.

[yos233 1]

Assuming it is the 747...The gear warning horn goes off anytime the flaps are at or greater than 25 and the gear is up. Positive climb or not.

[adthelad 0]

So it would be typical to hear this warning or am i doing the missed approach incorrectly

[upwind 0]

The standard procedure for a go-around in the 747 is to retract the flaps to 20 before you retract the gear otherwise you will always get the warning horn.

[sheepfu 3]

You can always silence the gear horn if you do not want to hear it. It is correct that the checklist says flaps 20 before the next line which says retract gear, the actual cockpit procedure would be to move the flaps handle to the 20 degree indent, then move the gear handle to the up position. This will result in a gear horn warning every time as the flaps take longer to transit from landing configuration than the gear take to retract. In a go around, your goal is to clean up the airplane as quickly as possible. Therefore waiting for flaps before raising the gear wastes valuable seconds that the aircraft needs to counter the decent and accelerate and climb. If you watch videos of the 747 performing a go around in real life, you will notice that the gear come up while the flaps are in transit.

[adthelad 0]

You can always silence the gear horn if you do not want to hear it. It is correct that the checklist says flaps 20 before the next line which says retract gear, the actual cockpit procedure would be to move the flaps handle to the 20 degree indent, then move the gear handle to the up position. This will result in a gear horn warning every time as the flaps take longer to transit from landing configuration than the gear take to retract. In a go around, your goal is to clean up the airplane as quickly as possible. Therefore waiting for flaps before raising the gear wastes valuable seconds that the aircraft needs to counter the decent and accelerate and climb. If you watch videos of the 747 performing a go around in real life, you will notice that the gear come up while the flaps are in transit.

ah great that it what i wanted to hear. I was assuming to hear a warning that i was doing something majorly wrong but im glad im going through the procedures correctly