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paulmillner
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 Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 2:16 am Post subject: overshoot vs go around |
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>> "why the heck didn't I overshoot if I was going to land half way
down the runway?"
Probably useful to note that in American English, overshoot means to run
off the end of the runway. In Canadian English, apparently, overshoot
is the same as what American pilots call "going around"...
Not sure how "overshoot" came to mean go around, as the words
themselves, over and shoot, don't seem to be related to a balked landing
by construction. 
Paul, Cincinnati remote
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 1:16 pm Post subject: overshoot vs go around |
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PaulInteresting thing languages - the Canadian "overshoot" meaning "go around" in American English probably originated with the Brits - "circuits and bumps" in Britspeak, and maybe Canadian English as well, is "touch and go" in American English. If I'm wrong someone out there is going to correct me I'm sure. Winston Churchill once famously said: "The English and the Americans are one people, separated by a common language." In a distantly related matter of interest - my French-Canadian grandmother used to say the purest form of the French language spoken on this planet is not spoken in France but in the small towns and villages of eastern Quebec - I must add however that memere left Quebec as a 15-year-old in 1893 - so take that with a grain of salt.
Dan Bergeron
RV-7A - N307TB
362 hours since first
flight on 4th Aug 2009
(and that's the English way of
saying "Aug 4, 2009")
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Paul Millner <paulmillner(at)compuserve.com (paulmillner(at)compuserve.com)> wrote:
[quote]--> RV-List message posted by: Paul Millner <paulmillner(at)compuserve.com (paulmillner(at)compuserve.com)>
>> "why the heck didn't I overshoot if I was going to land half way down the runway?"
Probably useful to note that in American English, overshoot means to run off the end of the runway. In Canadian English, apparently, overshoot is the same as what American pilots call "going around"...
Not sure how "overshoot" came to mean go around, as the words themselves, over and shoot, don't seem to be related to a balked landing by construction.
Paul, Cincinnati remote
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