Think there's a discussion on this in one of this months Pilot/Flyer magazines. Not that I stand in WHSmiths reading for half an hour to save me buying the thing obviously, but the author was advocating what Crowe has said. Build up your confidence slowly in controlled conditions and get your money's worth out of it.
As an aside, there's no such thing as an IMC rating for fling-wing pilots (unless its an acronym for Impending Mutilated Corpse).
If an R22 goes in a cloud its game over time.
