Talk:Parachute

Full-deployment altitudes depending on pressure?

Hey, there were some edits, that the full deployment altitudes are depending on the pressure like the semi deployment. Now I haven't visited another planet, but according to the part.cfg (e.g. Mk16) the full deployment altitude is defined by the altitude itself and not the surrounding pressure. Can somebody test this and may back this up? — xZise [talk] 14:39, 8 May 2013 (CDT)

The full deployment altitude is always 500 m above ground. That makes a pressure-based trigger impossible, because the air pressure does not "follow" the terrain. (e. g. on a 10km high mountain the air is thinner than at sea level, but the parachutes will fully deploy at 10500m anyway.) It might be possible that the full-deploy height is different for each planet, but there is no config file for such values. Also it would cause the parachutes to deploy much sooner on Eve than they would on Kerbin, because of its high atmospheric pressure. I haven't been there myself, but I checked a video, the parachutes deployed at 1700m, the landing was at 1200m, so 500m above ground. There is no way that this is pressure-controlled. --Dgelessus (talk) 15:34, 8 May 2013 (CDT)

Ah nice ;) Maybe link the video. I'm now changing this article back. — xZise [talk] 16:32, 8 May 2013 (CDT)

Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj0T-ylVbjU. The landing is in the last few minutes. --Dgelessus (talk) 15:37, 9 May 2013 (CDT)

Here is the same video link with time code http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj0T-ylVbjU&t=45m40s. --Omega (talk) 11:19, 10 May 2013 (CDT)