'Didnt want to get the turbos hot'
'Windsheer'
What a joke of a report.
The ATB report stated:
In addition to flying duties, the pilot was also working as the company maintenance controller, and had recently taken on extra administrative duties. They stated that they were distracted during the incident flight by these additional pressures.
If the pilots mind was so consumed by his job as a maintenance controller and recent extra administrative duties that he felt all this was affecting his flying judgment which is why he pranged his aircraft, you have to question his decision to fly that day. Mind you he needed to dredge up a quick excuse to ATSB and that was a good as any I suppose.
When they realised they were becoming low on the approach the pilot reduced flaps by 10° rather than apply power. This was done to avoid reheating the turbo chargers as they had already cooled.
Sounds like a potentially dangerous gimmick retracting flaps when very low on final rather than apply power and reheat the turbochargers. By ATSB accepting the pilot's excuses and not offering expert engineering comment to refute the pilot's reasoning, how can other pilots reading this report expect to learn from this incident.