Do you use the launch escape system?

[Russoft]

Back when the game was so easy I could crash a massive rocket and afford to rebuild it and launch again, I used the escape tower. Currently, I'm playing on the standard hard difficult. With the addition of building upgrades, etc, I have no spare funds and would have gone bankrupt ages ago if I didn't revert to VAB. Yes, I know I'm a cheater.

[FleetAdmiralJ]

For every manned launch i always use the new escape tower. (though its rarely used)

I actually don't often use that part specifically because I usually put a chute or docking port there. that dosn't mean I don't have an abort sequence, but it's just not the tower

[BagelRabbit]

The last time I used the stock LES towers was in 0.23.5. I made a plane out of them...

I've since gotten bored of them, and thus I occasionally make my own. Usually I just fly without a LES.

[Aragosnat]

I still don't use them. I build my own. Nice idea. Just not useful for how I build ships.

[Jockee707]

Sometimes I use it for SRB separation.

[Hary R]

I don't have it yet in my current save. But mostly no... apart for aesthetics purpose.

[sedativechunk]

Yes, I do use them about 75% of the time. Usually in all my manned flights, if it's not a shuttle launch but a crew capsule (not lander, I always put those up separately) I always use one, and they have proven to be useful. I always program them and a separator to save the kerbals if things go bad. Once I break about 50km I program all escape towers to eject with my action sequence 10. Also, because the aerodynamics model is getting reworked, I have been using them to jettison nose cone sections and things once I break orbit to save mass, they are VERY useful for things like this.

Overall, it depends on the type of ship and use. Also, this is in interesting topic for another reason. Let's talk escape towers in reality. I once heard that the Apollo escape/abort system was useless. They said if something actually went bad, that system would have not been able to react in time to it. It was more so there as a political statement to show they didn't want to kill astronauts. The systems did work, it's just they didn't have a chance of actually saving astronauts. Anyone here of this? On the other hand, in the 80's on a Russian Soyuz I believe and escape tower DID save astronauts from a dangerous situation. I heard it propelled them to some super high g-force and scared the crap out of the astronauts. Maybe the 80's had better technology for rockets/computer systems for the abort sequences, but I did hear the Apollo one's weren't that great.

[Mighty1]

No, i run the rocket in a simulator and if it fails i rever...ehm... redesign and when the simulator shows it's working then it sudenly becomes the real thing. My Kerbals have very good simulators. They can't tell apart the real thing from a simulation.