Pitch behavior and air brakes on wings
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Someone may want to comment on pitch behavior. It appears to be overly sensitive to very small yoke inputs.
I am under the impression that the wing spoilers should deploy automatically on touchdown if the air brake lever is down. -
@flyforever The auto-spoilers on 146 aircraft are deactivated - look up on your overhead.
Standard practice on the 146 is on the short final have air-brake full open (there's actually a detent there on the real aircraft), then after touch-down the handle is manually brought full back into the lift spoiler detent.
This is to avoid having the very powerful lift spoilers opening and closing during a bounce.
It was refined on the Avro RJ which when auto-spoilers are activated behave more like you are used to.