Originally Posted by
AerocatS2A
Yes. The take-off performance is predicated on getting the gear up as soon as you're airborne. It is still important, no matter what type of multi-engine you're flying, to get cleaned up as efficiently as you can.
With a V1 engine failure, certainly, but I doubt it in normal ops. It might have an influence on noise monitoring, and would have a marginal fuel penalty and delay rapid climb based short cuts of the SID, but I don't think it'd be a problem to delay the gear until 400' in normal operations.