ShmackedSloth

After re-entry the rapier engines did not relight in either air or closed cycle mode. Intakes were reading that there was intake air. The fuel readout showed burning fuel in closed cycle but no thrust animation or actual thrust.

The caps lock control needs to smoothly increase control surface deflection up to at least 50% of full authority, or a setting on the parts to adjust the authority to the player’s choice. Right now the fine control is almost useless unless you are rolling the craft in the atmosphere.

After the 0.1.1 update I flew a small space plane to orbit. Circularized and deployed the landing gear (All were the medium airplane type) only for when the gear went to “lock” at the end of the extension animation it vaporized my craft. I’ve done this several times before the update and never had this happen.

I’ve been messing around with trying to piggy back satellites to orbit with a mk2 SSTO. (Think how the SR-71 carried the drone, except the plane gets to orbit before launching the payload) But it seems putting even a small mk1 size space craft on the back causes some ridiculous drag. I built the launcher plane first and it blasts through 440 m/s without breaking a sweat. But with the mk1 craft piggy backed on, it struggles to hit 300 m/s. I know cargo bays have been thought to be an issue but I have none on either craft.

I left a space plane in a stable Kerbin orbit. Switched to another vessel, switched back, and the Pitch and Yaw controls (roll was normal) on the spaceplane were all inverted. SAS didn’t like that either.

I suspect this is also why aircraft go crazy with SAS on. The control surfaces get it right but the SAS is twisted.

The inputs for roll and yaw are crossed with the roll and yaw outputs with SAS controls.

I can confirm the cargo bay drag. Even just one small circular cargo bay is like trying to fly with a parachute.

The SAS appears to be miss aligned and it takes Roll inputs and produces a Yaw output and then takes Yaw inputs and produces a Roll output. I compared control surface movement to the SAS reaction while in orbit (so control surfaces had no authority) and that was the result I found.