Too High on a Missed

Heres one of those questions that has a simple answer masking hidden subtleties: Youre on the approach to Orlando Executive with the family for a couple well-earned days in The Land of the Mouse. You loved the idea of flying in to Executive rather than putting the family in seats 27 A through D into nearby Orlando International.But now the reality of getting established on a back-course localizer in bumpy clouds has you behind the curve and working hard to meet the mandatory altitudes on the stepdowns. You barely made the restriction to cross MARYB at 1500 and now are at 1100 heading for BRICE, struggling with reverse sensing and losing. You decide its best to go missed now and start again. But, how to do it?

Key Takeaways:

• Executing an early missed approach, especially in busy airspace like Orlando, can create unexpected and potentially dangerous conflicts with other aircraft due due to insufficient vertical separation, even when adhering to published altitude restrictions.
• Though ATC is responsible for airspace separation, early missed approaches are unexpected events, requiring pilots to communicate intentions clearly and quickly and be prepared for ATC to issue "fast vectors" to resolve conflicts.
• Pilots must brief missed approaches comprehensively, anticipating the implications of an early execution, as approach design primarily addresses terrain (TERPS) with traffic separation constraints added during a separate coordination phase.

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