ladders on spacecraft

[splashboom]

Does anyone else find that ladders do not work as promised? I always end up doing jetpack acrobatics and jumping to the hatch because the option to climb over the last rung is rarely available. Other things I found more useful than ladders:

-plant the flag in the right spot and climb on it(you can retrieved once you grabbed onto something)

-retract the landing gear before exiting the craft so you can get back on easier.

[OHara]

Yes.  Kerbals have always tended to slowly slide along ladders.  Recently, around version 1.10-ish, the game changed to stop them when the reach the end of a ladder, which probably causes the difficulty you mention.  Very recently, there appeared an option in the pause menu (Escape-key, settings, 'Kerbals stop at end of ladder') to let you change that.

I like your idea of using the flag as a stepladder.