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I recently downloaded a great 757 for FS2002. However when I sit on the runway with the throttle at idle and the parking brake on, the aircraft "creeps" at .1Kts. As if my brakes are not holding the aircraft.

Where can I adjust the brakes in the AIR or GFG file? What should the braking strength be for a 757?

Also how about the effectivness of the spoilers? I feel they are not decelerating the aircraft enough when deployed.

Thanks for your help

This is what I have heard, don't take my word on it it's just some hearsay and I have no extended knowledge about this.
BUT, to make the aircraft realistic when taxiing on the ground the designers had to make a tradeoff.
See a normal jet can taxi at idle throttles, but the FS physics engine cannot tell the difference between ground and air physics so they had to do like this =/

I must say, I prefer that "creep" over having to advance throttles to ridiculous amount of N1/EPR just to get the aircraft moving...

We discuseed the spoilers in the FS2004 forum, and the spoilers primary objective is to keep the aircraft from bouncing, they spoil the lift so to say. The primary braking action comes from the wheelbrakes and  reverse thrust. But are you talking about deployment in air? Well they can't be fully deployed in the air, only a couple of spoiler panels are extended, and not fully either (these are called inflight spoilers), but they do a good job in increasing the sink rate without letting the increase in speed

So I think the airfile is correct, but I don't know whoich 757 you talk about. POSKY's FDE's are generally great, in case you use them

Nexus has hit the nail on the head here.
The main purpose of spoilers is to brake up the wind going over the wing causing the wing to loose lift. They can help take out slome of the bounce in rough weather also but they dont fully deploy them for this.
I have also noticed that some jet aircraft do not idle at ground speed after a auto start when I press F1 the engines idle down. I am not sure what causes this but I now have a habbit of riding brakes when using auto start then press f1 after all engines start. Or start engines while pushing back

Does anyone know if there is a way to increase/adjust the parking brake strength in the AIR/CFG files? The thrust on the engines is not the problem. I don't think the parking brake is strong enough.

As for the spoilers. They seem to be doing ok for now. I can live with it. Thanks for your advice though. Now I just need to adjust the parking brake strength.

Any help?