Why acutate the spoilers with a lever on the stick instead of the spoilers?
Which gliders add flaps when spoilers are activated?
At 22:12 27 November 2008, DRN wrote:
On Nov 27, 2:26=A0pm, Eric Greenwell wrote:
Is there an operational reason for putting the brake on the stick
instead of the spoiler? As opposed to, say, cost reasons?
Several reasons:
(1) No spoilers (like the HP-18 or my whale mentioned above)
(2) Some people hate messing with spoilers to prevent rope
overrun at hookup, because of operational considerations
or because...
(3) Many gliders pull down flaps with spoiler activation, so
if you pull spoilers back to use brakes now you need to
push flaps back up (take-off and landing)
I think that's why many gliders have both...
Why it never works ? A long rant plus discussion above...
Hope that helps,
See ya, Dave "YO electric"
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