Leading Edge Slats on the Me-109

[II/JG53 Rolf]

AOA - Sir, how could this happen? If the slat opened on the lower wing, it would increase lift there thus preventing stall for a few moments. What the pilot said was that less experienced pilot went into the stall/spin (stall first spin later) when this happened. On previous pages there was a description of RL pilot doing the same with only one difference - he was very experienced and recovered without a problem. The point is - you have a pilot with say 150 hours in the heat of the fight to the death who is turning hard to avoid being shot at or to gain a shot on an enemy - he could have missed those warnings. So the pilot told the truth, but as in many examples from that era it is only part of it. In the same manner you are ignoring his quotes telling the opposite. If we just step back a bit - to sum it up:
1) Slats were designed to open unevenly because the aerodynamic effects were uneven on both wings, especially in high AOA.
2) Slats helped at stall speeds at low speeds, discussion is held about high speed with not much evidence for either case in this thread.
3) Slats could have malfunctions as any other part of a plane - not all planes and pilots have the best ground crew. The slat then could open partially which could cause inexperienced pilot to stall/spin.
4) Recovery from the spin of slats equipped 109 was considered easy.
5) This whole thread was started because of stall and spin characteristics of bf-109 in CLOD game .