pastadiablo

What if you haven't unlocked action groups in the VAB yet, in Career Mode? How do you go about adjusting your parachutes settings without the action groups tab? I currently have a contract to test the MK25 between an altitude of 24500m and 25800m - however because I can't adjust the default RealChute settings, it wont let me deploy while going up, and it won't deploy until after we pass 25000m - which should be fine, except it apparently takes too long to come out, because another part of the contract is that I need to be going at LEAST 490m/s, so I blow right past my deploy window while the chute is still unfurling, and the contract doesn't resolve. Am I going to need to uninstall RealChute to complete this mission? I'd rather not but it seems like my only option (other than make another cool 200k funds to upgrade the VAB, with only one mission slot open).