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Old 16th Sep 2008, 10:42
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the flyingenglishman
 
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Lookforshooter, just in response to your earlier post.

There is a slat position indicator located just next to the flap position gauge, which has a series of couloured statements that illuminate depending on the configuration. 'Takeoff' illuminates in blue, when the slats are correctly positioned for take off. For this particular flight the indication should have been given if the flaps had been selected to 11 degrees, with the slats in the mid-sealed position.

There are 3 positions for the slats: up/retract, mid-sealed or fully extended.

There is an autoslat facility on the aircraft. The limitation with this, is that you must have the flap/slat handle out of the up/retract gate and the slats be in the mid-sealed position. Upon detection of a stall, the slats are fully extended. When this occurs the slat position lights illuminate 'Auto' in blue and 'Disagree' in amber. Once you are out of the stall, the slats return to their original selected position. Unfortunately, if you haven't any slats/flaps selected you get no autoslat.
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