impossible to land on land via parachute.

[Kendrick]

I just started out and have noticed what appears to be a elevation bug. during the demo I had several bad landings due to the ground being higher than 500km in altitude so when I made my first career craft I set the parachute to 4k I launched the craft got to 15k or so alttude before it came back down. kicked off all the extra thrusters and such. at about 6k I pressed the space bar to activate the parachutes. they deployed in closed form. at 4k they opened. at 3k well above the ground visibaly via cam i suddenly got the crash and roll animation. had 2 more launches after words 1 going to orbital height and ran out of fuel before being able to be nudged in to orbit. when it landed parachutes were deployed and it splashed down in the ocean and the goo canister broke off. the launch after that I made near orbital and fell back did the same that time as well deployed chute at about 6k 4.2k? ran in to ground quickly went to orbatial view and it was dropping altitude like a rock and was 2.9k altitude. finally just as i switched back it blew up. seems like wierd things happen if you switch between orbital view. I also had one where i was 4k above water with 2 parachutes on a mk1 pod and science jr. put it on 4x speed went to map view and back blew up 1.5k in the air no real good reason. the landing was above the middle of a large ocean at the time.

[Claw]

Hmm. Sounds like you are describing several situations together. If you could check out this thread and provide a bit more information: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/92230-Stock-Support-Bug-Reporting-Guide

Specifically what would help is screenshots of where you are and what's happening. Maybe even include a craft file if you can. We probably don't need log files.

Welcome to the forums!

~Claw

[Kendrick]

started with demo in windows xp 32 and then purchaced ksp and launched the full version in linux x64.

I took a screen shot of how the craft was after deploying parachutes at 6k

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=353064156

Immeadiatly after the screen shot finished i had no parachutes. the end log said the parachutes detached and then every thing else fell appart.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=353064276