emilyh: It's called flying on instruments -- keeping your eyes on your control panel, altimeter, and most especially your artificial horizon, rather than looking at the real sky; it's absolutely necessary at night in any kind of weather to prevent vertigo, and it works remarkably well for 3D video games, huh?
On Ladders: the best are actually the long ones, where you'd get 6 or 8 points of damage (before Deadfall) for falling. On those, do it thus: position yourself at the top, turn around, and backpedal off the top; as soon as you start falling, run forward -- on the long ladders, you should catch the ladder just when your characters start screaming, and you can then descent "normally". On the shorter ladders, there's really nothing you can do, other than hurl yourself Lemming-like from the top, because, with my backpedal trick, you'll hit the ground anyway before you can grab the ladder...
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