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Do you jettison heat shields?

MR L A

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Do you jettison heat shields?   

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Cavscout74

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2 hours ago, Freds said:

Being heat shields always the bottom part of a non-return probe, is just natural its use as 'landing legs' (why install landing legs if one can just crash the heatshield and, sometimes, watch an explosion?? )

I started doing that recently.  Even for vacuum worlds/moons - just set ablator to 0 and skip the actual legs.

Other than when I'm just a little too heavy for my parachute, I usally keep my heat shields except the inflatable ones.  I'll even keep the inflatable one if I'm coming down in water

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HansonKerman

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Just because I usually do, and because they're extra weight.

On 7/14/2018 at 6:40 AM, RealKerbal3x said:

I do, not sure why. For realism I guess.

Also, I jettison it before the chutes open fully, then wiggle my capsule about a bit so it flies off.

Same

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