Are slats shy ?

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Originally Posted by IvanK

To be pedantic slats are not speed dependant and work solely as a function of AOA
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

Pls no RAE. They were lagging in viscous fluids (all abt RAE test pre-1945 is inviscid for what I hve seen or read) .

NACA shld be Ok - Karman being there on the late 30's

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