How to control a craft dropped from another craft when it is decoupled?

[Djsnowboy267]

Say for example, you have a spaceplane which is carrying a smaller spaceplane on it. Both cockpits are manned. When you drop the smaller one, how do you control it IMMEDIATELY, without have to switch vessels? I tried "control from here" but that hasn't helped. Is there any way I can do this or am I going to have to just manually switch every time?

[Kegereneku]

That's an interesting question, I would like to know too because I though doing "control from here" before decoupling would work as it do with docking.

[Specialist290]

If I recall correctly, control automatically defaults to the craft with more mass.

[corvus2606]

it will always default to the vessel that has the parent part, but you can quick switch using the "[" or "]" keys

[Djsnowboy267]

I know that you can switch with those keys, but I want to be able to automatically start controlling the craft that I am releasing because it tends to slam into the parent craft within several seconds.

[Innuce]

Funny, I have the opposite problem. When I dock two crafts together, the resulting combined craft I have no control over. My workaround is to escape out to the space center, then re-select the craft from the tracking station. After that, everything is fine.

[zanzibar196]

Switching vessels appears to be, currently the only way to control a secondary craft... Here's a video that shows you how:

[CalculusWarrior]

Maybe attach Sepatrons to the smaller craft so that it gets blasted a fair ways away from the parent and avoids smashing into it? I'm not sure what you're trying to do and if that will totally destroy it or not...