Planes bouncing on water

[Noobton]

I've had this issue with several planes using the mk1 and mk2 cockpits: if I float them to the water they can move around and stay safe, I can get out of the cockpit and the plane survives with no issues, but as soon as I try to reenter the cockpit, the plane bounces around and explodes, is this some weird ksp behavior and I should learn to deal with it or is there anything that I can do to stop my planes from exploding?

[Geschosskopf]

Hmm, I've never had that problem.  Please show us a pic of your plane so we can maybe figure out what's going on.  But in general, it's best to have ladders for boarding seaplanes instead of trying to clamber on to them.

[Snark]

3 hours ago, Noobton said:

as soon as I try to reenter the cockpit, the plane bounces around and explodes

Quite aside from any practical solutions that the fine folks on this thread may offer you:  the game really shouldn't be doing that.  A plane floating at rest in the water shouldn't bounce around and explode, unless you're doing something weird like aggressively clipping parts or something.

Therefore:  have you reported a bug?  We're in experimentals for 1.1 right now, last chance to get bug reports in and have a reasonable chance that they might get fixed in 1.1.  Report it!

(And attach your .craft file, and/or .sfs file, to the bug.)

[Noobton]

I just reproduced it on stock 1.05 on a new save and uploaded the .craft to the bug report

 

[Snark]

3 hours ago, Noobton said:

I just reproduced it on stock 1.05 on a new save and uploaded the .craft to the bug report

Great!

For those of us who are interested in such things, could you post a link to the bug? 

[Noobton]

sure, here it is http://bugs.kerbalspaceprogram.com/issues/7434

Edited March 22, 2016 by Noobton

[Thomas White]

Its great!

[pincushionman]

Remember that the new water behavior is…well…new, so bug potential = high just due to that.

[Noobton]

since this is not a question anymore, is there any way to move this to technical support? here's a video of the exploding plane if you're still curious boom :(

[Snark]

4 hours ago, Noobton said:

since this is not a question anymore, is there any way to move this to technical support?

Funny you should ask that!

Moved.