Bonanza 36
Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Total 1172
Confusion; Situational Awareness; Workload; Human-Machine Interface
Deviation - Altitude Excursion From Assigned Altitude; Deviation - Track / Heading All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence; Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT; Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach
Flight Crew Executed Go Around / Missed Approach; Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Procedure; Weather; Human Factors
Flying the approach to Runway XX; from the South; I only saw a small glimpse of the runway but took note that the North end of the runway seemed to have a bit higher ceiling as I executed the missed approach. I informed the controller that I would like to shoot the approach to Runway XY. The winds were light and out of the South anyway. I did the procedure turn proceeded inbound and was given alternate miss instructions. I was told to turn heading 090 and climb to 3;000 feet. As I approached minimums I was dividing attention; trying to see the field and drifted left of course. I decided to go missed. I turned to 090 and began climbing when I spotted a cell phone tower through the clouds and made an evasive turn to avoid it. We decided with the weather being so low; we would return home and come another day. I spent the rest of the day debriefing what went wrong to cause such a close call. I determined that I had failed to proceed all the way to the missed approach point before executing the turn. Another factor was that my thinking that the clouds were higher to the North; yet the NOTAMs had raised the minimums to 1;555 feet which contributed to still not being visual with the runway environment when on the approach to XY. I was mentally prepared to fly the published miss well before the flight even began but hadn't anticipated being given alternate miss instruction at this field and was perhaps experiencing a little too much work load as single pilot in IMC which caused me to forget to proceed all the way to the MAP before turning.
Pilot reported drifting left of course on approach and elected to fly a missed approach. Pilot further reported spotting a cell tower protruding thru the clouds and maneuvered to avoid it.