Hershel

Thank you all for the suggestions. I found the default setting was 500. Increasing the parachute deployment height worked great! If anyone else is having this issue, simply right click the tip of your spaceship and increase the parachute deployment height to 650. I experimented with several different heights. You'll probably survive using 600, but you'll be hitting the ground faster than 5m/s. 650 will slow the craft down to 5m/s without leaving you waiting several minutes. Thanks again!

Does anyone else have this problem, where you open your parachute and the parachute releases but doesn't fully open until 400m, just in time for you to get slowed to only about 55m/s before hitting the ground? I've tried this dozens of times releasing the parachute between heights of 2200 and 7800 going traveling between 210-270m/s. It doesn't seem to matter how far or how close to the ground I am, the parachute only decides to open at 400m, but by then it doesn't give enough time to slow me down. I've tried entering the atmosphere at a periapsis between 46km and 35km and it doesn't seem to matter. What am I doing wrong? Is there some auto parachute open that I can adjust? Why would they set it so low? Thanks,