Flight Question Uncontrollable nose dive during re-entry

[CantOrbitProperly]

Hi.

I'm trying to learn to deorbit with the DGIV through the "Autopilot Automatic Reentry" tutorial. I've watched the autopilot a couple of times, but I am not able to replicate it manually. Everything goes fine until about 59km altitude, when my ship goes into an uncontrollable (i.e. RCS does not stop it) nose dive, and it explodes a few seconds later. Checklist for reentry says "Configuration correct" and reports no damage to the ship.

I've attached a quicksave from my latest attempt and would appreciate any help. I've tried searching for this issue on the forum but I'm probably be using the wrong search terms.

Orbiter 2010p1 + DeltaGliderIV-3_2010_20140109

 

[SolarLiner]

If you don't shift the center of mass, you won't be able to successfully control the craft through re-entry as the pressure into it is enormous. There is a manual re-entry mode on the DGIV where you can control the ship's pitch and roll, and have it maintain it automatically.

 

[Loru]

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