EVA Report while flying, is it even possible ?

[Mendabar]

Hi,

Is there anyway to ensure an EVA Report while flying (landing process) ?

Cause, i tried but each time i can't grab the ladder with my kerbonaut.

Edited August 11, 2014 by Mendabar

[EdFred]

Yep. Go out on EVA when descending with a parachute at about 5m/s

[lajoswinkler]

Or just jump from the ground. At least it worked for me.

[Mendabar]

Thanks ! I'll try right away.

[UmbralRaptor]

EVA on a landed craft, and take the report while hanging off the ladder.

Edit: yay, 1000th post.

[Laie]

Collecting Science Data at 2000m/s:

Sometimes some Kerbals forget to cling to the ladder. Stupidity might be a factor, though I have the impression that the Lab has a good hatch and a bad one. It helps if you have some kind of step or other obstacle that stops the Kerbal before he falls off. This is by no means a guarantee (save before your leave the craft!) but buys you a few moments during which you may hit F.

[Pecan]

'Flying' but not 'under acceleration' helps most some of the time.

[HorusKol]

I usually wait until I'm falling at less then 10 m/s under a parachute, or setup a ballistic trajectory with not too much horizontal velocity and get out at the peak of the curve.

[problemecium]

"Flying" at orbital speed just below the edge of the atmosphere, down to maybe 50km, is relatively safe for doing "upper atmosphere" reports. For the rest of the flying reports, use the aforementioned ladder trick and just get the report while hanging onto the side of the ship.

[DasValdez]

Pfff, do it right before landing and just pretend your Kerbal is doing a sweet MotoX trick:

[pincushionman]

Wait until the parachutes fully deploy. You'll have about 500 m and a couple of minutes to get out, get the report, and get back in before you touch down.

The killer is the "EVA report from Kerbin's upper atmosphere" - you need to time it right so that you're actually in the atmosphere but moving slowly enough you don't get blown off the ladder.

[cantab]

The key with the upper atmosphere science is you need periapsis below the surface otherwise the game classes it as space. So just make a suborbital flight or a deorbit burn that drops periapsis low enough then make the EVA at 69 km, the drag force will be negligible.

[stelarfox]

Really i found a far better way of doing any kind of eva (in atmosphere). the only important are 3 factors.
1: should be really stable.
2: you should not have any aceleration out the vehicle. (you can actually have the oposite with no problem).
3: set the plane (or ship) in such angle that all the drag does not get in the way (so you can do it while still moving forward, just set your plane at 45 degrees with the brakes on and stable.

as a bonus there is one kind of cockpit that has the hatch just after a bump, that really causes the air to not try to move the kerbal away (specially if your nose is up than your velocity which is kind of a normal situation)
i have been able to do that at 250 m/s without problem and any heigh. (even so should be fast as the plane may get out of control if more than 10 seconds and then your kerbal may just be sucked by the drift)