Yeah, it's pretty borked, and to hilarious consequences. I had managed to get a ship to the launch pad (brand new playthrough) with stock parachutes (but with the mod installed). I armed the parachutes because they weren't showing up in staging, then fired my engines. Almost immediately, the chutes all deployed and were shot straight up, as if they had become rigid parts of the ship, even experiencing mach effects. Then, when I started to fall back down, the ship flipped over with the parachutes pointing the way back to the ground. It looked so odd, I had to laugh and thought perhaps the mental image of that might amuse you.