ReverseFlight,
You've got to be pulling our chain with your rotor inertia claims. Hovering engine cuts are routinely done from 20 feet with a Jetranger in our recurrent training. I never saw any attempt at more than 4 feet at the EC120 factory course. But I'll let you try the high hover cut first and then you can let us all know how it worked out.
It does a run-on auto pretty good though. The heel-slam reminds me of the 407 - we just keep that 10-15 onto grass instead of trying to get it to stop in light winds.