Reentry and Real Chutes

[Eugene Moreau]

Real Chutes

 

Hi All.  I’m trying to use Real Chute and I’m having some issues.

 

The default auto deployment altitude is 30km for drogue or Main chutes.  My problem lies in that I’m never going slow enough (<600m/s?) when I hit that altitude.  when I am going slow enough and I deploy, it deploys the drogue and main chute at the same time.  If I arm it early and let it handle the deployments I end up losing the chutes as they deploy at 30km and just get ripped off.

 

What am I doing wrong?  Am I coming in too steep?  Too shallow?  If I’m coming in from LKOish I set my periapsis to anywhere between 30km and 40km for a reentry.  If I’m screaming in from Minmus or The Mun, I have to set it a lot lower like 25km to 30km or I’m just gonna go around again.

 

So what am I doing wrong? 

[Streetwind]

27 minutes ago, Eugene Moreau said:

So what am I doing wrong?

You're trying to use the default values...

Seriousy though, you can change them in the VAB and during flight both. Just pick something more sensible like 5 km.

[Eugene Moreau]

26 minutes ago, Streetwind said:

You're trying to use the default values...

Seriousy though, you can change them in the VAB and during flight both. Just pick something more sensible like 5 km.

So, do the drogue chutes have a higher deployment speed than the main chutes?  You would think so?  Would be nice if they had a speed trigger for deployment rather than a altitude one.

[Eugene Moreau]

Yah.  Changing defaults works like a charm.  I knew I could do that, just though I was doing something completely wrong since it wouldn't work with the defaults.

Edited July 13, 2016 by Eugene Moreau