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Old 23rd Aug 2009, 01:49
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mephisto88
 
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some disarm the spoilers when they raise the gear, others disarm them as they retract flaps
Some operators follow the Airbus SOP of: after raising gear, the spoiler lever is pushed back down to the disarmed position.
This then allows the spoilers to be deployed manually at any time.
(As you are probably aware, with the spoiler lever raised/armed, the lever will not physically move rearwards to deploy spoilers manually).

IIRC, some operators found that when pilots were ordering gear up, the natural follow on was for the other pilot to select gear up, then the hand would go down to the spoiler lever and variously push/lower/bonk/thump the top of said lever, and on ocassions, an over exuberant thump continued into a partial spoiler deployment. Clearly not ideal at 300' climbing out on a dark night max weight TO.

Consequently, some operators decided that as there is no rush to disarm the spoilers, and there is no downside to leaving them armed, that they would do it at a safer height once the flaps were retracted.

Hope that explains the minor difference between operators.
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