SAS, who are your friends at PHI? Where do you get these nuggets?!?
There is no such thing as a 'flat approach' profile being used/taught/authorized/condoned by PHI in the S76. It's all strictly standard offshore approach type stuff, this incident or the non-SOP techniques of individual pilots notwithstanding.
You know, some of us actually work at this company while you, on the other hand, float around in a boat.