On Sep 10, 7:18*pm, Dave Hoppe wrote:
On 9/10/2011 3:45 PM, ContestID67 wrote:

Westbender - Thanks for the comments.

Power testing - You don't have to power up/down to test? *Hmmm, that
was not my experience - just deploying the airbrakes with gear up
didn't do it, I had to power cycle. *Different vintages of 302s?

John,

Something is amiss. If you were entering the landing pattern with your
gear up and you open your spoilers, you definitely should not have to
power cycle the 302 to get the alarm. That would kind of defeat the
purpose. My 302 is 6 years old, however it had the latest firmware
installed this last winter.

I should mention that the update did not change the alarm behavior.