Commercial Fixed Wing
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Multiengine
Situational Awareness; Training / Qualification; Workload
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Deviation - Speed All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach
Flight Crew Became Reoriented; Flight Crew Regained Aircraft Control
Aircraft; Environment - Non Weather Related; Human Factors
The Captain had not flown in 5 months; and I am still relatively new to the airplane while only sporadically flying until this month. The bulletin for this issue was issued during a time that there were many outside factors affecting everyone's lives and then most of us did not fly very much. I feel that a bulletin as important as this should also be listed on the Approach Checklist to remind the crews. On the arrival to ZZZ; we were cleared direct to the airport from over 100 nautical miles away. ZZZ approach then kept us higher than normal. The Captain as the pilot flying attempted to descend and configure with speed brakes. We were given a tight base turn and cleared for the visual to XXR. Once it was obvious that we would not be stable by 1;000 feet AGL; the Captain called for a go-around. As I was notifying ATC; he proceeded to push the thrust levers to TOGA and then return them to MCT. The airplane immediately began an aggressive pitch up from about 2 degrees to over 25 degrees in less than 3 seconds. It was at that point that I remembered the bulletin for this aircraft in regards to the CG being less than 30.0%. The Captain disconnected the autopilot and lowered the nose. We circled back for XXR and landed without event.
Air Carrier First Officer reported an important CG related bulletin for this aircraft was issued during a period of time when many crew members were not flying; and contributed to an unstabilized approach.