"Tony" wrote in message
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Fate punching one's ticket happens, but those of us who fly SEL in IMC
often (at least if they were trained as I was) fly the approach
expecting to fly the miss and treat finding the runway as a happy
accident.

Yup. And even if the you forget to brief the missed approach, it still
should be instinctive, once you know an approach has been botched, to climb
using the final-approach heading (or just *any* heading) and then, when the
climb is stable a few seconds later, to consult the chart or the tower to
find out what to do next. That's especially true in this case since GON is
in a flat coastal area, as the pilot would've known from even the most
cursory preflight planning.

--Gary