Megan wrote:
Think I'd be questioning airspeed calibration given the facts presented.
That's a possibility given the apparent abrupt stall characteristics referred to earlier.
The ATSB report makes reference to consistent final approaches below target approach speed and altitude turning final. It would have been more informative had the data been tabulated to see whether he'd been 1 kt slow at 499 ft or 10 kt slow at 200 ft.
I was quite close to Terry way back in our youth when we both went to Newborough Tech and we went on to being apprentices together (IM+R), and I remember him as capable, intelligent and exacting, and certainly not a risk taker as could be implied from the ATSB report.