AlbinMalmsten
19-04-2014, 22:25
A lucky planespotter caught a touch and go at Amsterdam Schiphol last week, I can't see anything wrong with the landing. Can you see anything?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqKYGeNJYC0&list=UUYRdWFju4qAACiMaBlcPDSA
ESSA_TWR
20-04-2014, 20:24
It's not easy to see from the movie, but i think it looks like he touch down past the touch down zone, was not sure if he could stop on the distance and decided to go around. Better safe than sorry, good airmanship! It could also be that he saw an runway incursion happen down the rwy and decided to climb over rather than try stopping, but then it's serious and would for sure have been official reported and it would have get some media coverage... It's not easy to know why just from that movie in that angle.
Go around happens daily for different reasons, nothing special. But a touch and go with a comercial airliner is more rare, i have never seen it during my 4 years in the tower at Arlanda.