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Parachutes Safe to Deploy?


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Just landed on Duna for the first time in my 1.0.4 career. Despite the display of parachutes being risky to deploy it was safe to deploy them at a speed around 450m/s. I might be wrong, but IMO the correct formula to calculate whether it's risky or not should depend on atmosphere density x speed and the right click menu should show this correct and not show statically "safe" starting at speeds < 250m/s no matter how dense the atmosphere is. Really annoying that you have to guess here.

For example Dunas atmosphere is alledgedly 0.2 as dense as Kerbins. That means, 1.0 * 250 m/s = 0.2 * x m/s or resolved to x = (1.0 * 250 m/s) / 0.2 = 1250 m/s. So near Duna's surface it should be safe to deploy chutes starting at 1250 m/s.

Well whatever the correct formula is, the display of 'safe' or 'risky' should be correct and not static and should be based on the games simulation of atmosphere and drag.

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