Rainboe,
Just an aside to your comments regarding the minimal effects of spoilers at low speeds, I remember from my B707 days that there was a performance weight penalty to be applied when taking off in crosswinds that exceeded 15kts component to allow for the spolier drag although I can`t remember (senior moment here) if there was an aileron `dead band` or not but the handling advice was "aileron angle on the yoke equal to the crosswind component". B737 and B747 both had similar advice. It is only the AIRBUS that mention restricting the aileron to a value below spolier deployment value.
PS in 41 years flying - 6 years on the VC9. Now that really was a horribly handling aeroplane!