Saw this and thought I'd share it.

 

A valuable lesson on using common sense and safety first when attempting to land and suddenly hit by a wall of heavy rain and zero visibility!

 

Enjoy!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtlS0sxFlHk

 

 

Rgds,

 

Steve

Just because the runway is in sight doesn't mean it will always stay in sight.            Being prepared is the key.    

Saw this and thought I'd share it.

 

A valuable lesson on using common sense and safety first when attempting to land and suddenly hit by a wall of heavy rain and zero visibility!

 

Enjoy!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtlS0sxFlHk

 

 

Rgds,

 

Steve

 

 

I watched the video, saw the runway, and "poof" it was gone!  Good call from the cockpit to go around...

 

John

Interesting video.

 

Good call to go around, but I got the distinct impression by the delay in making the call that they hoped it would become visual again which is pushing it a bit as they were already below minima.

 

The calls are bit muffled so it is difficult to be sure, but the go-around it self seemed to be a little uncoordinated. You can see the speed window open up prematurely, probably due to A/P engagement - this can be a bit of a gotcha with such a high workload. In my opinion it is generally better to hand fly to flaps up clean speed as per Boeing guidance. The PF calls for heading 090 so he didn't seem to notice the speed window. The PM starts to bug up when he was interrupted to set the heading a second time. He didn't go back to the speed, so perhaps it was at or above flaps up speed, but I didn't get that impression from his movement. The PF calls for flaps up with no indication that he noticed the speed window.

 

I have no idea why the FLT CONT master caution annunciation, but they seemed pretty quick in cancelling it without calling or identifying it!