A tower-induced go-round

Jay Honeck wrote:

Cutting in front of someone on final, whether under orders or
voluntary, is never safe nor courteous.

I don't see how following a controller's instructions is discourteous


The controller's instructions put both the 172 and I on a course that
-- in the controller's opinion -- was going to cause a collision on
the runway. This is why he sent me around, after clearing me to
land.

You don't find this unusual?

When I worked at GFK we'd have at least 50 go arounds a day, for any
number of reasons. Our typical traffic counts were on the order of 150
operations an hour. Students would land and then inexplicably stop,
they would go to take off and then do a Vx climb without telling us,
effectively stopping in mid air, they'd miss the turn off, etc. Had the
plane in front of you not stopped everything would have worked fine.
That's not the controllers fault, it wasn't his instruction that put you
on a collision course it was the first guys stopping on the runway.
Using your logic it was the controllers who cleared you for takeoff that
put you on a collision course.