[Pukin Dog]

Pukin dog, would you deploy spoilers and keep the engines spooled up on a 777 if you were to be low and slow? Seems like that would take care of the spool up argument.

No, I would use flaps. I want more lift, not less, and I don't want to be pitched up hanging on the engines either. Flaps will keep me under 5 units of alpha, and I can go as slow as I want.

Idle on my big baby is less than 12%, but I still have to ride the brakes to keep from rolling most of the time.

[Dead Dog]

Same as a bug smasher. I suppose speed breaks would be more appropriate that a spoiler (If you needed to get rid of drag fast and climb).

BTW, how long would does a GE-90 (and those similar commie motors) take to spool up to 85%? I gather that spool up time isn't so much an issue in a microburst due to excess thrust.