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Missed approach Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries
(See also Go Around) 1) A maneuver conducted by a pilot when an instrument approach cannot be completed to a landing.The route of flight and altitude are shown on instrument approach procedure charts. A pilot executing a missed approach prior to the Missed Approach Point (MAP) must continue along the final approach to the MAP. The pilot may climb immediately to the altitude specified in the missed approach procedure; 2) A term used by the pilot to inform Air Traffic Control (ATC) that he is executing the missed approach; 3) At locations where ATC radar service is provided, the pilot should conform to radar vectors when provided by ATC in lieu of the published missed approach procedure. (FAA4)
By the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.Missed approach Definition from Government Dictionaries & Glossaries
(*) An approach which is not completed by landing.
Source: U.S. Department of Defense, Joint Doctrine Division. ( About )Missed approach Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Missed approach is an instrument flight rules procedure which is a standard (but optional) component segment of an instrument approach. Generally, if the pilot flying or the pilot in command determines by the time the aircraft is at the decision height (for a precision approach) or missed approach point (for a non-precision approach), that the runway or its environment is not in sight, or that a safe landing cannot be accomplished for any reason, the landing approach must be discontinued and the missed approach procedure must be initiated immediately. It is also common for pilots to deliberately execute a missed approach as part of initial or recurrent instrument training. In such cases a pilot may execute three or four instrument approaches in a row with a missed approach between each one.
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