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Because the left gear is used for wheel spinup.

I have about 20K hours in Boeings and made 9000+ landing in the 737.
The 737 NG engineering is awesome. Nothing wrong with the spoiler
system. Every SWA pliot expects spoiler deployment on touchdown. If it
does not occur, they immediately deploy manually.

If you make a good wet runway landing, spoiler deployment is never a
problem. "Plant" the aircrat on the 1000 ft. maker..

OBTW James, they are NOT "on-off mircroswitches" but proximity
switches. A lot more reliable than mechanical switches.

They are magnetic and not mechanical, but still they are
either ON or OFF... correct and thank you.


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James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

"lynn" wrote in message
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| Because the left gear is used for wheel spinup.
|
| I have about 20K hours in Boeings and made 9000+ landing
in the 737.
| The 737 NG engineering is awesome. Nothing wrong with the
spoiler
| system. Every SWA pliot expects spoiler deployment on
touchdown. If it
| does not occur, they immediately deploy manually.
|
| If you make a good wet runway landing, spoiler deployment
is never a
| problem. "Plant" the aircrat on the 1000 ft. maker..
|
| OBTW James, they are NOT "on-off mircroswitches" but
proximity
| switches. A lot more reliable than mechanical switches.
|

lynn wrote:
Because the left gear is used for wheel spinup.

So they can't have both a spin up sensor and strut compression sensor
on the same gear?

My mistake-Spinup and strut compressionon th RT. and spinup only on th
LT.