AES Pod loose on lowest tier launch pad is counted as 'flying' frequently. Kills pilot.

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Just had a contract to test the AES pod landed at Kerbin.

So I went into the VAB, selected a pod, and nothing else. Launched it.

The game seemed to think I was both flying and landed simultaneously, flipping back and forth between the two quite frequently.

I managed to eventually run the test (had to be 'landed' at the moment I hit the button, which just meant hitting the button repeatedly).

'Recovering' the vessel was impossible, as the readout that the button is hidden under kept flipping out and covering the button before I could even see it, so I tried hitting 'Space Center' in the ESC menu.

I guess in the microsecond of time between me hitting the button and it unloading the scene, it flipped the pod back into a 'flying' status.

Jeb is now KIA.
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If reproducing this issue is difficult, it might actually be interaction between this and a mod called "Landing Height"? I haven't tested for that.