Devised this Go-Around check list

Well really the nose should come up first…..

I think a go around is quite a delicate affair for such an abbreviated “check list”, e. g.:

- pulling up before adding power is asking for a stall. Depending on ac type, this should be done simoultaneously. If correctly trimmed, adding power alone should already make the nose rise.
- don’t retract flaps fully, but only to take off setting
- don’t retract gear before positive ROC

As always, the POH has the last word …

I would have thought that getting some speed up would be the first thing, on a go-around.

Of course it depends on the go-around and how slow you are going.

Also right (or left) rudder, to keep the ball in the middle.

I was taught:

Cram (apply full power smoothly)
Climb (pitch up)
Clean (flaps up)
Click (autopilot on, if you are using it)
Communicate (call going missed)

NOTE: Climb and Cram are effectively simultaneous.

Well the way I was taught was to arrest the descent ( particularly talking about say an ILS here). Smoothly add power and start to climb. Safest place to be is over runway so don’t rush into turns.

Have read a report of a chap who had his day/night switch wrong. On short final thought he didn’t have gear down (he did). Firewalled throttle, pulled up and commenced the left turn on the missed still dirty before spinning in.

Obviously many thing happen simultaneously but I have seen people panic, add full throttle towards runway and essentially accelerate toward the threshold rather than be smooth and calm.

Just do what you do on a take-off. Power, keep straight, pitch to climb attitude, positive rate of climb, (gear up if appropriate) progressive retraction of flaps, fuel pump off and prop rpm set as required. Any manouvres to the side of the runway and radio calls, issue of sick bags etc happen once the essentials are done and dusted. You don’t need a checklist, just use a logical sequence of events.

Just do what you do on a take-off.

Precisely. I was beginning to wonder if something’s wrong either with me or with my pilot’s eddication.

You don’t need a checklist, just use a logical sequence of events.

Probably – but some people’s logic works best when backed up by a sheet of paper. Nothing wrong there.

The (a) pull up first then add power or (b) power up first then pull up discussion is one that is a US versus European style of go-around. In both worlds it is taught the other way around.