An air carrier pilot reported an unstabilized approach to sfo runway 28L after getting high on appro...

Attributes
ACN	972521
Time
Date	201109
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	SFO.Airport
State Reference	CA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Large Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 200 Flight Crew Total 12000 Flight Crew Type 2200
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach

Narrative:

While flying in to sfo I wound up high and fast on the approach. It was the classic safety chain. Approach [control] kept our speed up and I did not descend fast enough or recognize the problem until it was too late. The captain wisely decided that we should go around. I overflew the runway at 600 ft until we could get a word in and tower told us to turn out and climb. About that time the terrain warning went off. I believe this caused the tower to query us repeatedly [of] our reasons as we were trying to execute the miss. This added to the confusion and burden of the missed approach. I did not fly the missed approach as nicely as I would have liked with the confusion of the calls and the warning. I was trying not to overspeed anything and also fly the profile; while the captain was being sidetracked by repeated calls from tower during these critical moments. I still can't figure out how I wound up so high and fast in the first place. It seemed like I was right on profile to the dogleg. We perhaps should have broken off the approach and flown the miss on the tip toe instead of flying down the runway; but in that busy environment I felt doing so would make things worse and more complicated than awaiting tower instruction.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An air carrier pilot reported an unstabilized approach to SFO Runway 28L after getting high on approach; then executing a non-startard Tip Toe approach go-around.

Narrative: While flying in to SFO I wound up high and fast on the approach. It was the classic safety chain. Approach [Control] kept our speed up and I did not descend fast enough or recognize the problem until it was too late. The Captain wisely decided that we should go around. I overflew the runway at 600 FT until we could get a word in and Tower told us to turn out and climb. About that time the terrain warning went off. I believe this caused the Tower to query us repeatedly [of] our reasons as we were trying to execute the miss. This added to the confusion and burden of the missed approach. I did not fly the missed approach as nicely as I would have liked with the confusion of the calls and the warning. I was trying not to overspeed anything and also fly the profile; while the Captain was being sidetracked by repeated calls from Tower during these critical moments. I still can't figure out how I wound up so high and fast in the first place. It seemed like I was right on profile to the dogleg. We perhaps should have broken off the approach and flown the miss on the Tip Toe instead of flying down the runway; but in that busy environment I felt doing so would make things worse and more complicated than awaiting Tower instruction.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.

An air carrier pilot reported an unstabilized approach to sfo runway 28L after getting high on approach; then executing a non-startard tip toe approach go-around.