MK16 and MK2-R Radial parachutes.

[Thybountyhunter]

Trying to do a sub-orbital with the 909 "Terrier". I get to the 80km test range and testing goes well. When I come in from orbit both types of parachutes just burn up even when I have the heat shield taking the brunt of the heat. I have tried both types of chutes as well different angles when I enter the atmosphere. Nothing helps did 1.0.2 break this? I am also running a custom game and set the heat to about 70%.

[EtherDragon]

What is likely occurring is your parachutes are deploying during reentry, because you've activated the stage with them in it. Make sure that you place your chutes in a separate stage, and deploy them manually once you get slow enough, say around 400m/s, or so.

[FancyMouse]

Or set the min pressure of your chute to something like 0.3~0.4

[problemecium]

^ This. I find 0.15 is usually pretty safe, and I've never once had any trouble if I set it to 0.2 or higher.

[Vorg]

I found .32 works best though a heavy section could be in trouble coming down over mountains. Any lower and sections that come in steep can still be too fast any higher. I use this setting on all stages and then use stage recovery.

[Xannari Ferrows]

Set your parachutes to deploy at a high atmospheric density, and fully deploy at a low altitude.

[Bev7787]

I just deploy when my speed hits 200-300m/s for both.

[NikkyD]

I NEVER pay attention to the atm, when i am falling through 5000m i open the chutes and manually set a higher altitute if its moutains otherwise the game...

[KerikBalm]

"I NEVER pay attention to the atm, when i am falling through 5000m i open the chutes and manually"

I normally do this... but sometimes I have unmanned probes that run out of power on the way down after retracting panels, and I can't manually deploy them at that point.

Setting the semi-deploy to 0.2, and fully deployed to 1,000, and then activating them as soon as I retract the solar panels results in a safe landing all the time.

[Asharad]

Don't deploy chutes during re-entry. Wait until the atmo-burn has finished.