Kerbal Parachute Deployment Problem

[XLjedi]

Under what condition(s) do the Kerbal personal chutes activate when a Kerbal is in a command seat?

I'm having a problem under the following scenario.  A command seat vehicle is attached to an aircraft with a radial decoupler.  A Kerbal boards the command seat and craft takes off.  In the air, I use normal spacebar sequencing to detach the command seat vehicle with radial decoupler.  At this point, the kerbal chute deploys and I don't want it to do that.

 

[Dfthu]

Just press P to deploy with you want too (Don't deploy the parachute before that)

[XLjedi]

1 minute ago, Dfthu said:

Just press P to deploy with you want too (Don't deploy the parachute before that)

Not the point...  it's deploying without hitting "P" at all.

[XLjedi]

It would seem this is a bug...  if I use spacebar staging to detach a radial decoupler while a Kerbal is in the command seat, it also instantly deploys the Kerbal's parachute.

Edited May 21, 2018 by XLjedi

[bewing]

Are you sure the kerbal's parachute is in a different stage than your radial decoupler?

 

[XLjedi]

How do you put a kerbal chute in the stage?  I don't even see it listed?

[Not Sure]

3 hours ago, XLjedi said:

How do you put a kerbal chute in the stage?  I don't even see it listed?

It’s in there. Go over it all, it’s only visible in flight in a command seat.

[XLjedi]

@Not Sure @bewing 

I'll have to check that this evening...  thanks!

So assuming this is my issue...   

When a Kerbal enters a command seat, their associated parachute(s) just automagically appear in any associated staging?  ...and this is the preferred behavior and correct by design?  Maybe something to do with an assumption around prolific use of jet-powered parafoils?

Or have I missed something on the command seat itself?  Maybe at design time I can just specify that it's ignored by staging?

 

 

 

Edited May 21, 2018 by XLjedi

[bewing]

6 minutes ago, XLjedi said:

When a Kerbal enters a command seat, their associated parachute(s) just automagically appear in any associated staging?  ...and this is the preferred behavior and correct by design?

Well, it's the temporary current behavior by design in the 1.4 release, I think. It may be changing. But you can take advantage of it while it exists.

 

[XLjedi]

29 minutes ago, bewing said:

Well, it's the temporary current behavior by design in the 1.4 release, I think. It may be changing. But you can take advantage of it while it exists.

 

Well...  it's not really something I can take advantage of.  ...but at least, for now, I think I know how to work around it.  Only downside is, it will likely prevent me from posting a craft design in the near future because too many people will not understand why the kerbal parachutes are deploying.  Hopefully, it will be fixed in an update here soon.

Thanks for feedback!

[XLjedi]

@bewing@Not Sure  

Just checked it...  there is definitely, positively... no kerbal chute listed in the staging sequence. 

Checked pre-launch, in flight, in the command seat.  The chute does not appear, but deploys when the radial decoupler is activated via staging.

Edited May 22, 2018 by XLjedi