True enough. My understanding was that if a 109 didn’t have the slats the wing would stall, and the aircraft depart – a worse outcome than an aiming issue! I’m not aware that it was really possible to couple airflow actuated slats; and also if that would be beneficial in the case where one wing needed to extend the slat and the other was still OK.

Regards,

trouble was ,especially on the ‘Emil’ if only one slat deployed then the a/c tended to roll and or yaw quite badly, worst case this could cause loss of control but certainly would make gun aiming ‘interesting’.

cheers baz