I made an error in WHERE I put the config file. But now I was wondering if you could post a more detailed explanation as to the config file parameters: dir has 3 coordinates, OFS has three coordinates, and what other "type" is there besides "parachute"? Also I do have it working roughly but it seems that if the chute is large and facing the wrong direction it accelerates the DG into deep space.
Yeah I tried it again with the original DG config file, the only change was to increase the square area of the chute to 1000. There is something woefully wrong, at least in my install of Orbiter. Even with the original config I ascend to 5 kms, cut the engines and pop the chute. When I descend about halfway down, the DG and chute accelerate and end up somewhere out in space.
OK I got it to work correctly with the DG! now I have problems as I want to attach it to the cvel fregat which I did, but when I did test flight into the upper atmosphere the same kick into deepspace happened. Maybe if you decelerate too fast with too large of a chute Orbiter glitches because it can' really model authentic chute physics. would starting out with a small chute and deploying progressively larger chutes solve the problem?