Disarming ground spoilers/speedbrake

[Aero_Medic]

Thanks for the 1.31 update team, ive parked the Airbus for now and getting back to learning the 737-300.

Not sure if my query is a bug or setup on my end? I cannot get a joystick or keyboard shortcut key to disarm the speedbrake/ground spoilers. They deploy as intended on touchdown but the default XP keyboard or joystick 'speedbrakes toggle' assignment is not working to retract them. The same shortcut assignment works for other aircraft and a shortcut key to toggle 'reverse thrust' works fine. 

Any thoughts?, thanks

[Iain]

Never tried assigning a button, I normally just give the throttles a blip forward after exiting the runway and they pop down, lazy mans way!  Or I stow them away with a mouse click while doing flaps up, radar off, TCAS off etc, which are all located down in the area of the cockpit.

[Litjan]

I have two buttons on my joystick assigned to "speedbrake down a notch" and "speedbrake up a notch" (or whatever those are exactly called) and it works nicely.

Maybe try that?

Cheers, Jan

 

[Aero_Medic]

great thanks for the prompt feedback guys. Ive upgraded to a throttle and sidestick so was trying out button assignments.

with some checking in XP settings the only assignmemts that work are the 'Speedbrake Retract One / Extend one' so i can use them and yes i am a big fan using the mouse to do the clean up. thanks again.

[Litjan]

...and in addition to that: I have "relaxed" the requirements of the speedbrake to be "fully down" to not trigger the takeoff configuration warning horn. It used to be at 0 (and not a single bit more), so a sloppy lever or mouse-move may have put it at 0.00000001 - and triggered the warning.

Cheers, Jan