Are slats shy ?

[IvanK]

Originally Posted by Glider

In real use, the slats on the Me109 are deployed automatically once the speed is reduced beyond a certain level and that activation speed is higher than the aircraft stall speed. So I would expect them to deploy.

It sounds as if they are doing what they were designed to do

The activation of the slats has nothing to do with keeping the ball centered.

To be pedantic slats are not speed dependant and work solely as a function of AOA though in 1g flight AOA and IAS are intrinsicly linked.
Not having the ball centred could easily result in different AOA on each wing and hence result in asymmetric slat deployment ... as can aileron input.

The Slat animation in CLOD at the moment is imo out of whack with what they should be doing. They should be coming out and staying out a lot earlier than they are at present. There is some discussion with the Devs on this going on using RAE test reports to come up with better more realistic operation. Not exactly sure when will actually see this.

The RAE data has 1G IAS (since they wernt recording AOA) slat deployment values for both the 109 and 110. These values can be used to extrapolate values for slat deployment at other G values. The essence being that AOA for slat deployment will always be the same, whilst IAS v G will change in a similar way to accelerated stall speeds v 1g stall speeds ie. Vstall X SQR G