B737-700 flight crew reported executing a go-around in aus when it appeared departing traffic would ...

Narrative:

While on a visual approach to 17R into aus; tower had a company aircraft in position and holding on the runway. Traffic was also reported to us of a helicopter arriving from the west to land and we reported him in sight. Descending through 500 feet we still had not received a landing clearance and company on the runway had not been cleared for takeoff yet. A moment later he came on the radio and alerted tower that he was still holding. Tower then cleared him for takeoff and us to land. By this time we are now through maybe 400 to even 300 feet. I felt at this point in time this was not going to work out and called for a go-around. Tower gave us a turn to 260 and a climb to 3000 feet. The issues during this go-around were that I did not want to over fly company or offset right with the helicopter; although in sight was approaching from our right. I therefore began an immediate climbing right hand turn inside the approaching helicopter and away from our company now rolling down the runway. I feel that maybe tower might have forgotten about the airplane holding in position as there was certainly a lot of radio traffic.in this case; a call to tower from us or even the aircraft holding on the runway sooner would have helped; but again; the frequency was busy.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B737-700 flight crew reported executing a go-around in AUS when it appeared departing traffic would not clear the runway in time.

Narrative: While on a visual approach to 17R into AUS; Tower had a Company aircraft in position and holding on the runway. Traffic was also reported to us of a helicopter arriving from the west to land and we reported him in sight. Descending through 500 feet we still had not received a landing clearance and Company on the runway had not been cleared for takeoff yet. A moment later he came on the radio and alerted Tower that he was still holding. Tower then cleared him for takeoff and us to land. By this time we are now through maybe 400 to even 300 feet. I felt at this point in time this was not going to work out and called for a go-around. Tower gave us a turn to 260 and a climb to 3000 feet. The issues during this go-around were that I did not want to over fly Company or offset right with the helicopter; although in sight was approaching from our right. I therefore began an immediate climbing right hand turn inside the approaching helicopter and away from our Company now rolling down the runway. I feel that maybe Tower might have forgotten about the airplane holding in position as there was certainly a lot of radio traffic.In this case; a call to Tower from us or even the aircraft holding on the runway sooner would have helped; but again; the frequency was busy.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1328358
Time
Date	201601
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	AUS.Airport
State Reference	TX
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B737-700
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach Final Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 183
Person 2
Function	First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 198 Flight Crew Type 1974
Events
Anomaly	Conflict Airborne Conflict Conflict Ground Conflict Less Severe

B737-700 flight crew reported executing a go-around in aus when it appeared departing traffic would not clear the runway in time.