Spontaneous Kerbal Kombustion

[LongbowEOD]

First off, if the gratuitous K bothers you, I apologize.

Now. This is likely a Deadly Reentry problem. The problem is that I was roving around the grasslands near KSC when something on my craft caught fire. Visual flame trail streaming out the back of the rover, burning sound effect, but I couldn't tell exactly where it was coming from. I couldn't imagine any reason why it would be happening, but it didn't appear to be causing any permanent damage, so I continued on. Well, about a minute later, my driver (in a command seat) exploded in the usual puff of smoke. At that point I checked the F3 log and it said he'd burned up from overheating.

Has anybody else experienced this?

[LongbowEOD]

I just reloaded the save from before poor Johnney combusted, and I noticed that his temperature was slowly but steadily climbing for no reason, as long as he was in the command seat. He was up to over 300°C by the time I checked him, after a few minutes of roving. What the heck is this about?

[Pecan]

Awww rats, there goes my 'magnifying glass sunroof' idea.

(No actual help or observation to offer, I'm afraid).

[Taki117]

A picture of the problem would help greatly, this however sounds like a bug with DRE and should be in their thread.

[MarvinKitFox]

I just reloaded the save from before poor Johnney combusted, and I noticed that his temperature was slowly but steadily climbing for no reason, as long as he was in the command seat. He was up to over 300°C by the time I checked him, after a few minutes of roving. What the heck is this about?

Now that is a real hotseat!

Possibility: was Johnney / the seat vibrating with the sort of jitters that physics-exempt parts sometimes get? 'cause I've had that phemonemon cause low-speed autoignition on a plane on the runway, under DRE.