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[TurnerFam]

yep, while most, if not all, our coach's will have a 'warning' for the same, the question may be more of what they are referring to as 'Level', as the process of using our Legs for 'leveling' is not always necessarily to 'level' a coach, but to provide a foundation for minimizing movement while we are parked.
If the warning states that the 'Leveling system must be deployed and the coach must be exactly Level before deploying the slides', or similar, then YES, you'd hang your hat on that process.

But, I believe that the factory is really referring to a SAFETY measure, meaning that the coach should be 'level', and not in any extreme angle, either side to side, or even front to back, before the slides are deployed. That makes all the sense in the world, THOUGH, there are many, many, and plenty of times we all park on fairly level ground, don't need to 'level' our coach, and can still deploy our slide, or slides, and have no issues.

The slides really don't care, but the idea is that you don't want any weight shift, even slight, to take the coach over in the event you are parked really out of level, though most of the time this is not the case.

Even factories disagree on the process. Newmar may say to put your slides out BEFORE you level(I know, crazy, right!??), Tiffin may say the opposite, and Thor may say differently DEPENDING on the make of coach, the make of slides and their systems, or even whether gas or diesel!
There really is no 'right' or 'wrong', as I'm sure that if an owner made even a simple mistake, the coach would not somehow break or cause it to no longer work - it's really more preference than anything.
We've done it both ways, plenty of times, in 85,000 miles over four years, and the coach know no different.

: ) Smile, travel.... enjoy!