Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
WhyBy, if the slats deploy and reduce the stall speed, but you are already stalled, you still need time (altitude) for that change to help your corrective action. Someone previously mentioned inertia. Time is/was in short supply.
You're right of course.
Anyway I'd suggest that as they'd just got airborne then the flaps and slats would be partly deployed already, increasing the flap setting, in the absence of any other available action, merely deepens the stall and requires a larger pitch change to get unfu**ed.