Originally Posted by
J Dawg
If you are referring to the auto-ground spoilers, yes they did deploy
you say potato, I say potato....
I was referring to that lever to the left of the throttles that say "SPEED BRAKES" and the EICAS that announces "Speedbrakes Armed", although if I asked a ground instructor I'd bet that "auto-ground spoilers" is the correct nomenclature.
It looked like there was wt. on both mains at :16 seconds and only asymmetric ground spoilers until about :25 seconds. That seemed a little long for auto extension, thus the comment.
Whatever the reason, it seemed to be a challenging maneuver at some level.