Interesting thread.
Amazed though that there are so many peeps that are happy to go that low on a PFL.
I would have thought that most folk should be able to judge by 500ft whether or not it is going to be a success. If you have trouble discerning the obstacles/suitability of the field and your height/speed before that you have left yourself only very little time and no option to make any difference to an apparent bad situation.
May be those people that have to go that deep to see if it will work need to work on the earlier phases of the PFL.
I fully appreciate that some field choices can turn out to be a bad one in the last few hundred feet, but those should be the very small minority of cases. And yes sometimes you have to throw a landing away when in the very last stages of the approach and this should really only be the case if a third party throws a few spanners in the wheels.
I have to sympathise with the bloke who got spooked by the chap overflying him at only 50ft. Consider yourself lucky that you did not get done.
All MHO of course.
FD