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Old 27th January 2013 | 11:55
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LOMCEVAK
 
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JV,

Spoilers generate a roll rate and a trimmable horizontal tailplane can generate a pitch rate (accepting that its use is to achieve zero pitch rate). Therefore, by the definitions that you have given they most certainly are primary control surfaces, a view with which I agree.

Personally, I believe that any disturbance of flaps also should generate a MCF because if one is misrigged then a significant rolling moment is generated which may mean that the nominal roll trim setting for take-off results in an aircraft that is out of roll trim at take-off.

Rgds

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