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Old 20th June 2006 | 03:43
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A37575
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Degrees of movement of spoiler panels on take off.

On previous posts there has been intensive discussion on spoiler drag with excessive control wheel deflection on a cross wind take off. From anecdotes heard, excessive pilot control wheel input in crosswind take offs may be much more common than realised. It seems to largely stem from habits ingrained in ab-initio flight training and carried over. On the other hand perhaps the argument is trivial as aircraft are not going off the end of runways due unforeseen insidious drag.

Has anyone any specific figures on the amount of spoiler panel movement in degrees for say half wheel movement during a take off? As speed increases down the runway with constant wheel angle, do the spoilers change angle in any way - blowing down the faster the aircraft goes and so on?
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