As an instructor for GLASS Simulator Center in Sugar Grove, Ill., I see a lot of pilots execute missed-approaches. They're all instrument-rated and flying the sims for type-specific aircraft training. Most have considerable IFR experience. Here's the shocker: More than 80 percent of these pilots make potentially fatal errors while executing their missed-approaches. I remember watching one pilot make random, 360-degree turns after pulling up. Another continued straight (when the missed-approach procedure called for a climbing turn), climbed to a random altitude and just drove around the sky. Neither pilot had a clue as to what he should be doing. When I asked them what went wrong, they both gave approximately the same answer: "I didn't know what the missed-approach procedure was and I got disoriented and confused."
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