WTH is going on Parachute? drag and heat and burn...?

[Josefpm]

Always i used my chute with no problem. But from the last update what the H... alwys destroyed by drag and heat. drag and heat? WTH? i use heat shield and chute is in the other side why drag? why heat?

Edited May 22, 2015 by Josefpm
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[Supernovy]

When did you deploy the chute? (i.e. When did you hit spacebar to activate the stage with the chutes in it?)

[g.koster]

Ad the moment I have to set the deployment higth for the chute ad 0.5 Atmosphere. any higher then that there is a change they burn or rib.

click on the parachute in VAB and change the sliders

I like that they are still testing to find a chute to be deployed ad 10000m ad 600m/s. probably trying to find a fire retardend.

[Ulzgoroth]

Always i used my chute with no problem. But from the last update what the H... alwys destroyed by drag and heat. drag and heat? WTH? i use heat shield and chute is in the other side why drag? why heat?

Looking at the picture, it appears that the parachute pod is still attached to the capsule and intact, so what you destroyed was the parachute, not the part that holds it. The parachute part looks like it's safely situated out of the airstream, but obviously the deployed parachute won't be! And since 1.0.1, parachutes don't survive being popped open at hypersonic speeds.

[FancyMouse]

Because you're not pointing to retrograde, so the chute has some drag, though small. Look carefully - the big red arrow is for pod. The arrow for chute is the smaller one beside it.

[Josefpm]

Ohh thanks.

I see Chute appear intact but isn't it was i open after and its burn my fault but i can't find it because it's appear intact i see my fault now, i open in upper atmosphere and burn but look like intact ....

Thank all for your answer.

[Geschosskopf]

FWIW, I leave the pressure setting on chutes alone as I don't fully understand it and it seems to work fine at the default. If I change anything about chutes, it's to slightly vary their fully open altitudes so that multiple chutes don't all open at the same time and jerk the ship apart. And I never stage chutes until the ship is doing 250m/s or less. Following these rules, I've never had any chute failures.