Parachute Issues on Kerbin Ice Cap

[Intergalactic_Barfighter]

For some reason, even after beefing up my chutes, they keep snapping off when in landing approach on the ice cap on Kerbin. I am running three of the side-mount ones and one top mount. My lander lands fine in other biomes, someone please help.

[Vanamonde]

How fast are you going when they break, and how large is your ship?

[AlamoVampire]

Vanamonde makes 2 great questions, but I have one of my own. What does you flight log read (F3 default) before chute deploy, after initial deploy (drogue mode, ie chutes out but not fully opened) and after it goes into full deploy both before break off and after? I have a feeling it broke a connection somewhere. Had this happen on a crew return vehicle for my station. Thankfully I F5d before leaving my station. Thing broke during ascent.

[Cerberus738]

I know time warp seems to break chutes, at least for me. Also if you are going too fast when they fully deploy they will all rip off. You could try deploying them higher up... they cause drag partially deployed and may slow you down enough so they don't break when they fully deploy.

[pjschurr]

Given that Kerbin's atmosphere has the consistency of oatmeal, I open them later instead of earlier - you'll slow down below 150m/s without any help, at which point the parachutes are much less likely to cause spontaneous disassembly.