"Greg Esres" wrote in message
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if they don't "know when to go"

Probably the instructor is at fault, sometimes, when they teach
students how to "save" landings. The student isn't always capable of
determining which should be saved, and which shouldn't. I know I
scared myself once or twice as a student pilot.

Agreed - my primary instructors never wanted to teach a go-around, but
always wanted to land (or touch-n-go) somehow or the other. I had to
practically beg my instructor to do a couple of G-A's. That was on the
lesson just before I had to do it for real, solo.

-- David Brooks