Diatryma, thanks for the belated but nonetheless interesting response to my post over a year ago. I note the date of the report is Dec 2009 while the date of the last revision to the POH was Apr 2009. Is there going to be yet another revision to the last amendment before another R44 pilot bites the dust ?
http://www.robinsonheli.com/srvclib/rchsn34.pdf