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Old 6th Mar 2019, 08:44
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Uplinker
 
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Airbus A320 family have a useful partial ground spoiler mode where if one main landing gear has weight on wheels, selecting idle reverse will give you 10 deg spoiler deployment to reduce wing lift and ease the aircraft down. (As long as the spoilers were armed before landing, which is SOP anyway).

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