How to land in tutorial "To the Mun, Part 2"?

[Mumman]

I've picked up KSP again after not playing for a year or so. I thought I'd play the training missions as a refresher and now I am having big troubles with "To the Mun, Part 2". In this tutorial you actually have to get back from the Mun. I've tried searching on the forums, google, youtube, but the advice there just doesn't seem to work.

Most of the tutorial is easy enough. I can get my craft in a circular orbit below 300km around Kerbin, with enough fuel left to get to the surface. Problem is getting there in one piece. I enter the atmosphere with just the capsule and a parachute at between 2,000 and 2,400 m/s. When I have lost enough speed to deploy my parachute (approx 250m/s), I am between 6,000m and 8,000m above the surface. The parachute fully opens around 500m, but doesn't slow me down enough and I crash hard.

Any idea what I am doing wrong? I didn't use to have this problem before, and I even see the exact same scenario in youtube movies where they land without problem.

Edited August 20, 2015 by Mumman

[Scarecrow88]

Parachutes take longer to fully deploy now and the default opening height is now 1000m. Seems like they haven't updated the craft parachute in the tutorial to account for that.

[MarkusF]

Without starting KSP to check for what I'm talking about:

You could try to right-click the parachute and reduce the minimum air pressure to its minimum and the opening altitude to at least 1000m.

[problemecium]

^ Do the second part, but don't do the first! Unless you wait on staging it, it'll come out too high and rip off. Set the deployment pressure to something like 0.6.

[Phil deCube]

It sounds to me like you are either too heavy for the parachute (you could decouple some stuff and drop it), or someone put a bug up on reddit the other day. It was a short video, chute deployed, but didn't slow the craft a jot. Someone said it was due to one of the mods the guy had. I didn't pay that much attention. Might have been Real Chutes?

[Mumman]

Changing the opening attitude did the trick, thanks for the replies!