Kerbal Space Program

I have noticed similar behavior (floating plane jumping on water for no apparent reason) when I was collecting "rare science" (splashed desert) some time ago but now I have failed trying to reproduce it with your plane - it behaved correctly whatever I tried. Could you perhaps provide some more detailed guidelines how to reproduce the issue?

Kasuha wrote:

I have noticed similar behavior (floating plane jumping on water for no apparent reason) when I was collecting "rare science" (splashed desert) some time ago but now I have failed trying to reproduce it with your plane - it behaved correctly whatever I tried. Could you perhaps provide some more detailed guidelines how to reproduce the issue?

The is exactly how I found it, to reproduce it I just started a new career on my clean install, in sandbox mode, and taxi the attached aircraft straight off the runway to the shore, then eva and try to board back, I'll see if I can record the whole thing again tonight, I always wanted to do a Kerbal video and this looks like a good excuse haha.

here's the video of the bug, good stuff happens around minute 2:40 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjglHWGKTmU&feature=youtu.be]]

Okay tested it and can confirm it happening. My experience:

The plane must be launched from runway, taxied to water or landed in water close to KSC. Then all it needs to trigger the problem is to transfer the crew between cockpit and cabin. Does the same regardless whether it was taxied to water from shore or landed in water.

When I quicksaved the plane on shore and tried to reproduce the problem by taxiing it to water after quickload, the plane got just a little nudge.

When I quicksaved the plane in water and quickloaded, there was no effect at all.

When I landed the plane in water in sufficient distance from KSC, the effect was significantly smaller or there was no effect at all.

This might be related to:
http://bugs.kerbalspaceprogram.com/issues/7668

This is an intermittent error when boarding any floating craft. One time in 4, the plane will experience sudden massive torques when being boarded. This happens with any type of command pod or external command seat. It happens in any location, as long as the craft is floating. Sometimes the torques and resulting rotational speeds are low enough that nothing gets destroyed. To duplicate the bug, I think you can simply EVA/Board/EVA/Board/EVA/Board ... -- and after several tries your plane will suddenly destroy itself.