Pilot performed a touch and go . Do you think he did the right thing? 📸by ig/lisbon.airport.spotting

Not a touch and go... it's a baulked landing as a consequence of a low bounce... normally, for a low bounce we maintain pitch and wait for a second touch down. Having said that, when in doubt, discontinuing the landing (if reversers haven't been deployed), or going around, is always the best decision.

Absolutely 💯 the right thing to do. It looked like the plane gloated to far down the runway for a safe landing. When in doubt go around, there is no shame in that because it is safety first. Only an unsafe ego would continue that landing!

I’d say it was not a ‘touch and go’ but a balked or rejected landing. A touch and go is an intentional training maneuver where the nose wheel is lowered to the runway and the landing in completed before take off power in reintroduced. The cross winds here appears to have created a moment of uncertainty for the pilots and they decided to go around. Excellent choice.

He did what he thought was the safe thing - a go-around. Kudos.

I'm not a professional pilot, but if the crew in the cockpit thought it was the right thing to do, then very likely it was also the safest thing to do in that situation. I'd take the opinion of professionals over armchair commentators any day!

Always

Freaking ugly ass approach. On the bus, you take the crab out in the flare. This guy just didn't bother taking the crab out at all. Holy side loading, batman.

Not a t&g it’s a go around.

Yes, it's a go around, pilot did it, shouldn't be questioned.

Sure looked like the right thing to do to me. It looked like the plane wasn't straightening out as expected, so the pilot wisely decide to try again.

Yes he’s correct on this one

Whenever your approach is a bit sketchy, going around is always the right move.

we are all armchair pilots, maybe if we knew more information we could make a valid answer. maybe they were too fast for as far down the runway, maybe they were uncomfortable with the way it was going, maybe something was on the runway further down

For an account called @airmainengineer you sure don't know very much about aviation.

Isn’t it a shame they don’t build runways that align with predominant winds?

If you don’t know the difference between a balked landing/go-around and a touch-and-go, perhaps you should post on a different subject.

Of course, he had all the information we don't and going around is ALWAYS better than forcing an unstabilized landing.

What a question! A go-around is always the right thing.

The only near touch and go I’ve ever experienced was a foggy night landing in Connecticut. It seems the pilot was about to land on the road leading into the airport and not the runway.

Better safe than sorry!!

If been in this situation hundreds of times. I’m confident I would have landed that aircraft but will always defer to the PIC in the spirit of safety.

Yes

When isn’t a go around a bad decision. Always better to be safe than sorry.

I think you won’t even see the answer.

Hard to tell, not setting in the left seat and not seeing all the factors (speed, remaining runway…). If the PIC doesn’t feel comfortable the decision to go around and not push a bad approach is always wise.

I would never second guess a pilots decision to go around again, At the moment he made that decision he was absolutely RIGHT, It matters not a jot whether another pilot would have landed the aircraft first time this captain chose not to. End of discussion.

Yes Better safe than sorry

If they pilot thinks that maybe he should go around, then he must -definitely- go around.

Not a pilot but yes. Can’t gamble on a lucky next bounce. Hell I’d bingo to another field.

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Yyyyyyyep!

The approach was good but they got hit right when they touched down. Bad luck and a good call.

That is NOT a touch and go. A T&G is a formal procedure used only in pilot training for circuits where after touchdown the thrust is set manually, flaps retracted to a T/O position, trim reset and rotation above Vref. This is a go around with touchdown, or baulked landing.

One can always try again after a go-around; you can’t try again if you fuck it the first time and break the airplane trying to get it down