SASless, I am still waiting for your answer to the question I asked of you.
Here it is again:
SASLess, can you tell me exactly at what point the rotor system will let go in an overspeed, so I know just how much overspeed at the bottom of an auto I can accept and get away with?
If you can't answer this, shall I presume you don't know?
Your whole argument falls over if some poor bugger just happens to be flying a machine that isn't correctly rigged (and/or is overloaded...) and does shed a blade at the end of the flare, snapping his neck in a nanosecond. He is still dead even if he's a foot off the ground. After all, it is probably the poorly maintained helicopter that is more likely to fail.
By the way, the answer to the long list of questions that you fired back at me (how DARE I question you!), is YES for all of them.