Having been in a situation where i thought it best to land as soon as possible, i can guarantee you that when you have the A/C slowly descending towards what looked like a suitable landing spot, there was no way i was going to dump the collective, and rip off a big flare at the bottom to land somewhere closer. My thinking at the time was, it hasn't flown apart yet, if i don't change anything, hopefully it holds together until i grease it on...