Dave Siciliano
Final Approach
We just had to go-around here at Addison as they tried to work a bonanza in in front of us and it didn't work. He had taken off from a near-by airport and was making a short hop to Addison. We were descending from altitude and were probably doing 150 knots. Tower decided to try to work him in in front of us. Even though we slowed, we could never see him until he approached the runway because he was so low.
No problem with the go-around; we were pretty sure it was coming, but it was after a four hour flight from South Carolina and one of my passengers really needed to get to the facilities! She was pretty put out when we did the aprupt maneuver and delayed our landing.
I really don't understand what tower was doing here. They know we were much faster and had been on a long flight. Why they tried to get a guy in that was going maybe 6 miles instead of having him wait a minute or square off base is beyond me, but, mine is not to reason why!!
Best,
Dave
No problem with the go-around; we were pretty sure it was coming, but it was after a four hour flight from South Carolina and one of my passengers really needed to get to the facilities! She was pretty put out when we did the aprupt maneuver and delayed our landing.
I really don't understand what tower was doing here. They know we were much faster and had been on a long flight. Why they tried to get a guy in that was going maybe 6 miles instead of having him wait a minute or square off base is beyond me, but, mine is not to reason why!!
Best,
Dave