My take on our policy of minimum of idle reverse on every landing,certainly on later boeings is that, even with speedbrake not in the standard "armed" position, the ground spoilers will activate...They will not activate if the speedbrake lever were inadvertently left in the "down" position, with only idle thrust selected...
Also, in the case of a bounced landing, an armed speedbrake may disarm...so, another advantage of always using a minimum of idle reverse on every landing..well..on mine anyway...I think Miss Pamela Anderson would agree with me..sorry Pamela..ouch!
Last edited by Yaw String; 21st May 2012 at 15:35.