Are kerbals' personal parachutes "automatic?"

[Dark Lion]

So, I'm doing a thing. And the thing is working pretty well... but not to the end I really wanted.

I built a craft which launches kerbals a huge distance while in command seats. The thing is basically a multi-kerbal cannon.
Trouble is, every time I stage the cannon... all 8 kerbals deploy their personal parachutes and I don't understand why.

*I have not armed their personal 'chutes at any time during the boarding process.
*I have not pressed "P," which I understand to be the default button to arm the 'chutes.
*I have not found any possible way to intentionally stage kerbals' personal 'chutes.
*On activating the cannon, I only need to stage; no other keys are pressed.
*Control focus is always on the cannon, even though I aim the camera in the right-click menu at the "cannonball" kerbals.
*This save is an unmodded sandbox game (with the exception of Kerbal Engineer Redux)

Are kerbals' personal 'chutes automatically armed to deploy in a freefall scenario when your control point is not on them, or have I found a bug?

Edited October 2, 2018 by Dark Lion

[Xd the great]

Maybe. Can you check that you did not switch the parachute deployment button to spacebar?

[RealKerbal3x]

@Dark LionIt's not a bug, it's a feature. When you put Kerbals in command seats, their 'chutes become part of the staging sequence of that vessel. I'm not sure if there's any way to disable this, but make sure the Kerbals' parachutes (they should be a parachute icon in the staging sequence) are in a stage after the one that activates your cannon. Don't have them enable before or at the same time.

Edited October 2, 2018 by RealKerbal3x

[Dark Lion]

@Xd the great I would never do that.
I'm savvy with setting up my controls, as I like to switch roll and yaw controls, as well as use H and N for rovers' forward and reverse, respectively. I change no other key bindings but those.

@RealKerbal3x you might be onto something there. Either I wasn't paying attention to whether or not things were being added to my staging, or nothing was... I'll get back to you in a few minutes to verify.

@RealKerbal3x I'm afraid it's not as you suggest. 

As you can see here, there's nothing new being added to the staging sequence for me to manipulate...

[Dark Lion]

The same, frustrating result:

[Dark Lion]

12 hours ago, Xd the great said:

Maybe. Can you check that you did not switch the parachute deployment button to spacebar?

I apologize for my previous pessimistic outlook @Xd the great... Here's a snap of my key-bindings.

In the interest of being fair and getting to the bottom of this, I'll be more open to suggestion henceforth.

[Xd the great]

57 minutes ago, Dark Lion said:

I apologize for my previous pessimistic outlook @Xd the great... Here's a snap of my key-bindings.

In the interest of being fair and getting to the bottom of this, I'll be more open to suggestion henceforth.

No need to apologize. 

Anyway, was there another thread on this? I forgot.

[Dark Lion]

28 minutes ago, Xd the great said:

Anyway, was there another thread on this? I forgot.

Not sure. Me and the forum search don't get along. 
Happy to check out any related threads found though.

@bewing have you any thoughts on my troubles? Perhaps you've seen this before...?

[bewing]

It's a bug, and the devs know about it, and they have been looking at it, and version 1.5.0 comes out this month, and beyond that is NDA territory.

 

[Dark Lion]

@bewing thanks!