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Old 2nd Aug 2007, 05:27
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SoaringTheSkies
 
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let me ask this again:

ground spoiler deployment is totally under control of the airplane systems. No manual way for the pilot to do it manually.
Also, the logic equation behind that requires a number of parameters to become TRUE before it will allow spoilers to deploy.

Does anyone have an Idea why the system tries so hard not to deploy them? What would the opposite case be? Would a wing with all the panels up suffer structural overload apart from probably losing 80-90% lift?

I can perfectly understand that you don't want a wing with fully deployed spoilers while you're still in the air, but there are so many air-to-ground checks in the equation, it's amazing. What's the scenario that the engineers were afraid of?

pj
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