t'aint. .Not that I know anything about R22's but I would have thought that flaring to regain RRPM is not a good idea if you are at a low altitude. Speed is rather important at low level so you can flare at the bottom ( which does a couple of things reduces to virtually o your ROD and spools the disc up ). Having had an engine failure at 100 ft on the approach to a confined area in a 300 ( slowing down passed 30 kts just bringing in the lever passed 18 " manifold pressure everything went silent). All I could do was dump the lever to maintain RRPM and stick it on its nose to try and regain some more fwd speed. I did not have enough speed to flare but had to run on at about 30 kts with the lever up round my ear. If I had flared at the point of engine failure I would have washed my speed off to 10 kts and it would have hurt from 100 ft. I think the answer to your question depends on how high you are v your airspeed. I would suggest <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> you need to look at your height velocity curve and add to the height a bit if you are climbing at best rate of climb using full power to allow you to make a good eol. Look at it another way - when you can you treat the helicopter like a plane. I teach my students not to rotate until 50 kts if they have the length of field. This will mean in the event of an engine failure they have forward speed to play with. The worst take off is a vertical, the donkey goes its going to hurt !