Aerobraking Bug - Apoapsis increasing

[Pappus]

Hello just wanted to report a bug swiftly:

I am in Orbit around Kerbin with my Periapsis at ~60279m and AP at 2.6kk m. Obviously I am trying to get home and have no fuel left but thankfully air will bring me home, but I noticed that when I leave the physical warp on longer than I have to (e.g. 70k+m), then my apoapsis starts increasing for a good while and my periapsis decreases although again: I am at 70k+m and either both should decrease or nothing should happen, but certainly not pe decreasing and ap increasing.

It also only happens if I leave the physical warp on, if I go to transwarp or however that less-calculated warp is called it doesn't happen.

[Pappus]

I managed to increase the bug a notch and increase my actual altitude while aerobraking and I don't have any wings or anything. At the same time of course my PE would sink somewhere below 20k

[TheMoonRover]

That sounds like you're getting body lift from the ship, which is a feature. No physics is calculated with rails warp, and it is possible to completely miss the atmosphere with a high enough warp rate. Is it happening at 1x warp? If so, I would say this is not a bug, unless you're actually gaining both velocity and altitude. If it doesn't happen at 1x warp, it is probably because Physics warp, by definition, is less precise than 1x warp.

EDIT: Or do you mean the Apoapsis is increasing while you're in space? That would be a bug.

Or I may have completely misunderstood you...

Edited May 28, 2015 by TheMoonRover