Scotsman

I'm having a similar but maybe different problem. I'm at the same point in the game after starting a new career - earning some sweet early tourist money. However, I'm finding that my speed doesn't reduce nearly enough to save me when coming back down. I've tested it with just a pod, science junior and couple of wings and a heat shield on a fairly horizontal re-entry from maybe 110km up. I'll get up to 800 m/s around 70km up and by 15km i'm doing a blistering 1200 m/s and I burn up. Am I being a terrible pilot or is something wrong with my game? I haven't played since 1.0 and I'm on vanilla. Also, I've noticed my heat shield doesn't appear to be wearing. It keeps it's 200 units of ablator. After my speed gets too high and I get too low, I lose control and can't keep my shield towards my retro, then everything explodes. Any help would be good. P.S. Removed and reinstalled the game via steam twice, once using the delete then verify technique.