-=> Quoting Graham Drummond to Tony Paton <=-
 GD> Your story reminded me for some reason of a strange thing I saw a
 GD> couple of years ago at Brisbane Airport. It was a Fokker (uhm..
 GD> it's so long since I've been out there I've forgotten what
 GD> they're called. Little twinjets that look like a shrunken 727)
 GD> that did a go-around with the gear up (but the gear was also up
 GD> on approach). What made it odd was that my friend and I noticed
 GD> it was only running on one engine - starboard - the other was not
 GD> trailing smoke like the other Fokkers we had seen. It climbed
 GD> away west not to be seen or heard of by us again. I managed to
 GD> snap a photo of it first though, and on careful inspection of the
 GD> photo later we found that there was indeed only one line of
 GD> smoke. Any idea what was going on?
Sounds like a training flight doing a one engine approach
and go-around (The simulated dead engine would not be shut
down but left at idle, hence no smoke). In most twin jets
the gear is left up on an engine-out approach until a landing
is assured because due
to it's drag, a go-around is impossible with it down.
Nowadays this kind of thing can be done better (and safer)
in a modern simulator.
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