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Something that's bothered me for a while. Why are non-badass Kerbals scared so much? At the moment, the rule seems to be, look worried any time below 20km whenever an engine is running It kind of makes sense during rocket launches, which are always, impressive even when they go right. In my case, their concerns are justified most of the time. However, boosting away from a Minmus refuelling base to Jool also terrifies most of the Kerbals, even though we're 6km off the ground , on a steep upward escape trajectory. The risk here is not so much of crashing into something, rather that the craft never comes into contact with anything solid ever again. Ah well, if only i could get my head around orbital math. Worst of all is when flying aeroplanes and spaceplanes. Mine tend to be rather sedate, low TWR, large winged beasts with excessive stability and sluggish controls. Even my space planes don't go supersonic below 10km, and climb out at a rather shallow angle. I can't actually remember the last time I lost a crew member on one, though mission aborts and fails happen a great majority of the time. * Yet, despite the fact that we're 10km over the water, subsonic, wings level, slowly climbing and not on collision course with anything Bill looks like he needs his Mommy. On the other hand, we can be on a fatal plunge towards the ground in a space capsule where the chutes have failed, or about 2 seconds away from burning up in the re-entry heat, and everyone's happy because the craft isn't under acceleration. What gives ?