B737-700
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 145; Flight Crew Type 27000
Distraction; Workload; Confusion
Deviation - Altitude Undershoot; Deviation - Track / Heading All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach
Air Traffic Control Issued Advisory / Alert; Flight Crew Returned To Departure Airport; Flight Crew Took Evasive Action; Flight Crew Became Reoriented; Flight Crew Executed Go Around / Missed Approach
Environment - Non Weather Related; Procedure; Airport
We were cleared the visual approach to Runway 3 crossing the ridge line from the east. Configuration and sequencing looked good until the Pilot Flying cut downwind off to a tight base. I made a challenge that we were high on base. The Pilot Flying acknowledged. We were not stabilized at a thousand feet so as Pilo Monitoring; I directed a go-around. The PF carried the approach a couple hundred feet more and satisfying his curiosity; he initiated the go-around. I notified Tower and we were assigned a climb to 8;000 FT and a turn to 310 degrees. We were then given a visual to Runway 8. I set the NAVAIDs up and made the modifications to the MCP. Stable on the downwind; I updated the box. Tower asked for the reason for the go-around and; after I answered; he gave us the option to use Runway 3. I asked the Pilot Flying which runway he preferred and he said Runway 3 as that was the runway he thought we were going to anyway. I reset the MCP and NAVAIDs; and updated the box. As he was hand flying; I went to set his Course Select window; which he asked me not to. The go-around maneuver was smooth and deliberate; but I was surprised that after Tower assigning Runway 8 and the change of the MCP and NAVAIDs; which I recall verbalizing; that the PF felt a bit out of the loop as to aircraft setup. The second approach was established at 1;000 FT and a nice landing was made.A go-around causes a lot of activity and in the case of a directed go-around; the Pilot Flying is not always focused on what will happen but is still thinking about what has happened. I should be more careful on the set; acknowledge; and verify the sequence to make sure everyone is staying up with the progress of the aircraft.
A B737-700 First Officer executed a go-around from an unstabilized approach to ABQ Runway 3 and was assigned Runway 8 but preferred Runway 3 for the second successful approach.