I understand that the Handley Page Victor Bomber would flare itself as the wing entered ground effect prior to the high t tail.
And since this is a euro centric sort of forum, I thought that would be amusing to some here.
I look at a FLARE as the same as :
1. Bringing your automobile to a stop at a stop sign.
2. Hopping off an escalator at the bottom of your ride.
Wolfgang Langweishe's discussion of the "Stall Down Landing" in his book ("Stick and Rudder") is perhaps the best understanding of the flare over the larger area.
The flare regime has been noted to be the time the airplane enters its level of ground effect (EG half the wing span). One mistake about the flare is to completely and totally stop the descent. While acceptable in smaller planes, simply reducing the sink rate by 1/2 should allow you to be FLARED while not using the entire runway.