I can't figure out any way to manually deploy the ground spoilers when on the ground. Can they only be deployed via the armed/automatic on touchdown method, or have I just missed it? If they can't be deployed manually that would seem to be a safety issue.

Thanks.

31 minutes ago, CSEverett said:

I can't figure out any way to manually deploy the ground spoilers when on the ground. Can they only be deployed via the armed/automatic on touchdown method, or have I just missed it? If they can't be deployed manually that would seem to be a safety issue.

Thanks.

Hi,

Please make sure you do not have a conflicting keybind set on your keyboard. Testing with my throttle hardware and the physical handle in the sim, both deployed the ground spoilers.

Thanks!

Okay, I loaded a new flight directly on the runway, and I'm not getting ground spoilers. Here's my control settings, the cockpit spoilers and flap levers positions, and what I'm getting on the wing. For what it's worth, when I tried to install the plane it gave an error and I had to restart msfs to get it to install. Also when I first installed the plane I hadn't seen the"first launch" procedure on this forum, so once I saw it I uninstalled the plane, re downloaded it, then had to restart msfs because of the same error again to install it, then followed the procedure correctly.

Thanks for the detailed explanation. It definitely sounds like something isn't playing nicely here.

My suggestion would be to completely uninstall the aircraft, delete the WASM folder, and then reinstall the aircraft from scratch. I'm wondering if the installation may have somehow become corrupted, especially given the additional load the MSFS servers were experiencing that day.

Hopefully a fresh installation will resolve the issue!

9 hours ago, iniKyle said:

Hi,

Please make sure you do not have a conflicting keybind set on your keyboard. Testing with my throttle hardware and the physical handle in the sim, both deployed the ground spoilers.

Thanks!

Followed your instructions, first download was a success but installation failed, clicked retry and the download and installation worked, followed the first load procedure, then started the plane on the runway (which as a result meant it was in takeoff config). Result is that I got ground spoilers when the flaps were set for takeoff, but not when the flaps were full. Strange.

7 minutes ago, CSEverett said:

Followed your instructions, first download was a success but installation failed, clicked retry and the download and installation worked, followed the first load procedure, then started the plane on the runway (which as a result meant it was in takeoff config). Result is that I got ground spoilers when the flaps were set for takeoff, but not when the flaps were full. Strange.

If you are downloading the aircraft, try streaming it, as we are investigating some weird behaviour when it is downloaded.

Thanks!

5 hours ago, iniKyle said:

If you are downloading the aircraft, try streaming it, as we are investigating some weird behaviour when it is downloaded.

Thanks!

Not only did that not work, I'm not sure I'm actually getting ground spoilers at all, in any flap config. As the flaps extend each step retracts the spoilers slightly despite the spoilers remaining at full. This is full spoilers with flaps fully up:

Oh, and on starting the flight and loading the plane the wing flex causes the wings to literally flap like a bird for a minute or two before settling down. I'm serious, it looks like it's flapping it's wings.

Ok. There has to be some type of keybind or hardware bind that is causing this issue.

The wings flapping has been logged by the team.

Thanks!

I don't see how it could be a keybind or hardware bind. I reduced the controls to this, no hardware controls, started a flight on the runway, then the first thing I did was hold N, full speedbrakes but no ground spoilers. Am I doing something wrong, is this simply a case of the flight control logic not allowing it using this sequence of imputd, or is this a new bug?

Okay, not a key or control issue - ground spoilers deploy just fine on your A330 - but they also don't on the FBW A380 either - which makes it a A380 control logic trap I'm stuck in. Load the plane on the runway with engines running, then attempt to extend the spoilers control fully results in the spoilers being limited to what's clearly the in-flight limit. So, is the plane's computer simply in a control mode that doesn't allow ground spoilers (or is the parking brake being set the entire problem), including manually? (Perhaps the computer is simply in Flight Mode instead of Ground Mode? That would explain everything, but how do you tell what mode the computer is in?)

Edited 7 hours ago7 hr by CSEverett