add-ons that adds chutes to kerbals

[Gfurst]

Hey there folks, any suggestions on add-ons that adds chutes to kerbals, as emergency eject situation?

Just trying to reduce the burial rate of kerbals testing my crazed planes. Not that it is high though...

[PringleMan]

Hey is there a setting I can change somewhere to increase the snapping force required to break a chute?

I am using DRE with FAR and as I read in an earlier post, it is recommended to deploy your chute around 200-250 m/s. However, I have terrible timing and land in the mountains a lot, and it is just not possible sometimes for the capsule to slow itself to 200 ish m/s before smacking into said mountains.

[Alewx]

Hey there folks, any suggestions on add-ons that adds chutes to kerbals, as emergency eject situation?

Just trying to reduce the burial rate of kerbals testing my crazed planes. Not that it is high though...

Vanguard Technologies is what you are looking for.

Saved already countless kerbals.

[Master Tao]

@PringleMan:

Work on your timing.

Joking aside, I've found you can usually deploy chutes at up to 300 m/s. You also have some influence over where it comes down even after ditching your propulsion. With FAR, you can use lifting body effects to come down slower/farther away or faster/closer. Just angle your capsule so that the blunt end points a little down to add lift.

[Kerbas_ad_astra]

...I have terrible timing and land in the mountains a lot...

In addition to MasterTao's advice, I would also suggest using the Trajectories mod. It takes lift and drag forces (both stock and FAR/NEAR) into account based on the descent profile you've picked (default 0 angle-of-attack, which is good for spaceplanes, and usually should be changed to 180 AOA for pods) and puts a big red "X" on the planet where you will land. It's also great for precisely setting up aerocapture maneuvers.

[PringleMan]

Fellas that is all well and good, but not really what I asked.

See I am even having drogue chutes snap, and that defies the entire point of a drogue chute. And I am not even talking about large stuff, I mean the mk 1 pod with nothing else, coming down from a 100 km orbit with the re-entry pe at about 40km. Drogues will deploy at the default 30 km, then snap at 20 km every time, main chutes will snap right away on deployment unless I deploy at that magical 200 m/s. But that leaves it fully deploying at 300 m ASL, which wont work for pretty much and land-based touch down. Except for maybe over the grasslands.

I am not sure what changed, because this is the same way that I have been doing re-entries for ages.

So, I am taking it that there is not setting I can alter in a CFG somewhere?

Edited November 11, 2014 by PringleMan

[Master Tao]

Nope. It's coded into DRE.

[Claw]

Gave this discussion it's own thread, since it seems to have strayed from the topic of it's previous location.

Cheers,

~Claw

[madlemur]

@PringleMan, Also, look at Real Chutes. You can set your predeployment and full deployment altitude. Then, you just arm your parachutes and wait...

For your drogues, is the 30km default based on stock or FAR aerodynamics, and with/without DRE? It seems pretty high to me. I'd suggest letting your heatshield do the brunt of the aero-braking, then pop your drogues at the appropriate velocity, and finally your main chutes at the right velocity (I usually deploy my Mk16's at right around 300m/s, which I try to aim for 5km altitude, with a full deploy at 700m).

Edited November 11, 2014 by madlemur
Didn't realize where the original thread started...

[stupid_chris]

I'd much rather have had this stay in the RealChute thread. Those are questions related to my mod and to which I could have answered, moving it out didn't really do any good.