Parking Brakes

[Starglider]

I hate-hate-hate it when I go on EVA from my spaceplane/rover, and it rolls away from my kerbal... Jeb isn't that fast on his own two feet, you know.

This doesn't have to be a new part; just a function of existing wheels that you can toggle on and off.

There are two "workarounds" I've found, but neither is satisfactory. Raising your landing gear has other issues (the plane may not rest on the gear bay; wheels may clip into the ground). Using landing legs isn't very good either (they lower when you raise the gear after takeoff thus consuming action groups to rectify; they're rarely able to be perfectly placed, causing the plane to bounce around as they are lowered/raised; I've seen damage to the landing gear occur as everything bounces around; increased part count for something that is so basic).

[SuperWeegee4000]

This already exists. Hold B or press the brake icon beside the altimeter.

[NoMrBond]

Toggle brakes is the bottom one with the exclamation point inside (( ! ))

[Starglider]

Oh, so its not a keyboard control? (loads up a test plane) Oh, those things in the top readout are clickable! Yay! I'm going to go back to my cave now, and ponder my stupidity. Thanks, y'all.

[Galacticruler]

but don't the brakes turn off if no one is inside?

[NoMrBond]

Nope, but if the vehicle doesn't have a probe core you won't be able to toggle them on/off once the driver exits, so remember to do it before you get out (if this is the case).

B (for brakes) only lasts as long as you're holding down B though, you need to toggle it with the top (( ! )) button by the altimeter for it to stay on.

(also if you've toggled the brakes with the (( ! )) button, but you hit B, they'll toggle off)

[thereaverofdarkness]

you have to click on it for it to stay on. I wish there were a keyboard shortcut for that, like shift+B or something. Forgive my ignorance if there already is, and tell us what it is please!

[vexx32]

I'm fairly certain that double-tapping the brakes key activates the parking brake also.

[Tex_NL]

... I wish there were a keyboard shortcut for that, like shift+B or something. ...

You can set up an action group to turn brakes on/off.

(In my opinion doing so would be a waste of an action group but it does work.)