Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 60; Flight Crew Total 13000; Flight Crew Type 9000
Inflight Event / Encounter Wake Vortex Encounter
Flight Crew Requested ATC Assistance / Clarification; Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Environment - Non Weather Related; Procedure
Early this summer I was with a primary student on approach to land behind an airliner. Suddenly the airliner; for no apparent; reason decided to go around. Of course following close behind I had instructed my student to stay high and land past the point that the airliner was going to touch down. When the airliner decided to go around it created a tremendous wake event. I alerted the Tower that I would need to take immediate evasive action and turned ninety degrees to avoid the wake. In over twenty years of flying I have never had this happen and it made me think that this is not something we teach students. I think this should be an issue that is included in textbooks. I certainly will alert my students to this possibility in the future.
C152 Instructor Pilot reported encountering wake turbulence on approach to AUS when the air carrier aircraft preceding him executed a go-around.