Going around

[TRflyman01]

Hi all, flying a 737 into KMIA, miami, and I get the go around. I fly a traffic pattern, get cleared on downwind, established on final and then another go around. Happened again next time. On the fifth attempt at landing I finally got down. I've noticed that i always get cleared to land as soon as the glideslope becomes active on the downwind leg and it is at the bottom of the glideslope. Not good enough yet to fly a tight pattern in a 737 so i fly the downwind until at top of glideslope then turn base to line up for final, seems like a long time from clearance to land. Is this what is causing so many goarounds. I was only flying with 35% airliner traffic, due to comp. specs and framerate. I could imagine the goarounds with 100% traffic. By the way, I always try to plan my fuel and when I finally got to the gate i had 124 gallons of fuel left. Too close! had already decided that I was landing on the fifth try cleared or not.  What is a good procedure for flying VFR in a tube on a goaround. Is flying VFR the problem? I had rather fly my flight plan and not ATC's.

TRflyman01

[BFMF]

When on an instrument flightplan in a large jet, you don't exactly go around the pattern like a smaller aircraft would while flying VFR. You would follow ATC instructions and execute a missed approach

[Brett_Henderson]

Interesting questions. I don't fly the tubes enough to give the best answer.. but I can tell you that MSFS ATC gives you pattern entry and landing instructions based on your position.. not the airplane that you're flying. In other words, it doesn't care if you're a C172 or a 747 when it issues VFR orders .... and when things stack up on/near the runway, it just issues go-arounds.

I too will fly my own IFR route (ATC tends to vector you into the next state for a filed instrument approach) in a tube.. but when weather dictates a genuine instrument approach, I'll tolerate the bizarre vectoring, and it seems like there are less go-arounds, then. I can't say for sure..