I experienced my first go-around a few months ago, in an A321 that was landing in Tampa. The clouds had been very thick for awhile. The plane was making those

I experienced my first go-around a few months ago, in an A321 that was landing in Tampa. The clouds had been very thick for awhile. The plane was making those weird low-and-slow vibes that it makes on final approach. We popped out of the clouds and there was a highway with cars! A huge parking lot! (An airport, too? Certainly, but I didn't really see a runway or any runway-adjacent stuff.) To my inexpert eyes, we just looked to be impossibly low for our location. The folks in the cockpit apparently didn't like what they saw with their eyes, either. In an instant, the engines roared as they simultaneously pointed the thing upwards. My little pea brain was very impressed by the immediacy of the forces on my body as we disappeared back into the clouds after what was at most just several seconds of visibility. Anyway, it was very clear that there was no hesitation to the go-around. However that decision was reached, it was then simply executed. The next attempt went very smoothly about ten minutes later. (The go-around can be seen here, if anyone wants to have a look at some pretty lines and maps from ADS-B: https://planefinder.net/data/flight/NK630/history/5-48596475 https://planefinder.net/data/flight/NK630/history/5-48596475 )