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When you say "get a go-around" is that because you've goofed or because ATC instructs you?

It's because ATC instructs me.

Normally I do IFR flight plans and follow ATC all the way to approach, but I have Ultimate Traffic 2 installed and quite often I have aircraft of
different sizes both in front and behind me during approach. Quite a few times I've had a Learjet or 737 behind me, and while I'm floating
away on approach at a leisurly 65-75knots in my Cessna 172, the bigger jets will race past me and "steal" the runway.

I've started to use the "Clear Approach" function for UT2 to avoid situations like those, but even with just the regular FSX airplanes I
sometimes get directed too close to an aircraft in front of me. And with the taxiways being as silly as I've mentioned in previous post, they
take awhile on the runway before they have cleared it, thus making the ATC issue a go-around for me as I'm comming closer while they
are still on the runway.

I'm more aware of the situation (with aircraft spending a relatively long time on the runway before it's cleared on this particular airport) so I
generally try to keep a more-than-usual spacing between myself and the aircraft infront of me during approach.

Of course, I could probably just ignore the go-around and just land since the Cessna172 barely uses any runway to land, especially not
with full flaps, in headwind and with both brakes applied. But I prefer to play the game for what it is, a simulator, so I follow the instructions
I get.

With one exception this weekend when I had a few beers before flying. ATC told me to use RW18, and in my head I was thinking 18 =
south, so I have to fly south and land that way... couldn't figure out why ATC never gave me the clear to land instruction... or why there were
3 aircraft all lined up at the opposite end of the runway. So yeah, I landed on RW36 rather than RW18, and had 3 large jets comming in for
landing from the correct approach ^^

Don't drink and fly :D