Personal opinion - I think what you did was absolutely outstanding! Keep
in mind, you had a game plan, you briefed it, your crew agreed to support
it, everyone fully understood their job in that team effort, it worked
beautifully AND you had a safer operation! You DID NOT however have a
surprise at 100' above that totally blew you out of the water, such as
"CAPT, I COMMAND YOU TO GO AROUND" after you flew a stabilized approach.
At DL, we all know and EXPECT standard callouts, we know and fly within
maneuver tolerances and if we don't, we GO AROUND! Years ago, on rare
occasion we may have had a ROGUE pilot or two; hopefully no more. This is
all just a personal opinion!!
Regards-
Lonny
Bauer, Kenneth, CAPT, XOOT wrote:
>
> I rarely chime in, but I want to relate a story along these
> lines (Good). Years ago when I upgraded to an A/C (Captain) I knew I
> had to get the crew (2 Pilots a Nav and a Boom) on my aircraft involved.
> To do this I wanted them to know that they had an input. "Any
> crewmember" could call a go-around. To enforce this idea I said that we
> had some transition to do today. With the minimums for doing this
> covered I said I want one of you to send me around. I don't want to
> know before hand. I told them to decide on "who" while I went to file
> some paper work. We flew, and out of the blue one of the crew sent me
> around out of a perfect approach. I didn't hesitate in going around and
> the Co-pilot backed me up. I asked what the reason was and they said
> "That was the unplanned one". We did this for each position to have a
> chance to call "Go Around" on other flights. Bottom line is that it
> worked and opened discussion on some good crew questions. The questions
> focused around items not covered in any of the regulations, like what is
> expected from each position. When we were done talking, each of us knew
> what our part was in an emergency/unusual situation.
> I had this discussion with my first crew (Hard Crews back then)
> and I did it (Abbreviated) for those that I flew with last. The crews
> seemed to like working from known expectations rather than assumptions
> and fear.
>
> Ken