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Old 21st Sep 2014, 13:28
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tom775257
 
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The aileron is at times sat happily with its 5 degree droop with flap extended at its neutral position with the spoilers extended... it can't be for roll control.

I'm going with TyroPicard's explanation. I have seen it twice for real on the A320... once after takeoff, only noticed once the *bing* Ecam caution appeared to warn that the spoilers are extended against power and once leading to a high speed RTO during base training (Ecam threw up T/O config master warning). Airbus SOP changed to disarm ground spoilers now after flap retraction for this very reason.

Guessing here: With the T/O explanation I would think they received the ECAM caution fairly early on, but elected to have a look at it once things settled down a bit on departure.. which is a good thing with an amber caution... then once you have the aircraft on a safe trajectory have a look and diagnose.
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