At 19:48 19 March 2009, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:09:30 -0500, Jim Logajan wrote:

You're claim conflicts with that in the FAA "Pilot's Handbook of
Aeronautical Knowledge":

"Found on many gliders and some aircraft, high drag devices called
spoilers are deployed from the wings to spoil the smooth airflow,
reducing lift and increasing drag."

Printing it in some official or semi-official publication doesn't make
it
right.

But it *does* make it the right answer to the written test when that test
is given by that same authority. For the test, concentrate not on what is
necessarily true, but on what the FAA wants for an answer. After the
written is out of the way, just learn to fly the aircraft.

Jim Beckman