I still can't take off from the ground
I set my throttle to just over 50% and hit Ctrl-1 to start the engine.
Once it is running smoothly I increase the throttle to 100%
Then I hit "B" to release the brakes.
Another possibility is to hit Alt-N to get to the next waypoint.
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Re-being shot at:
I set this up in "Reduced UAW160V4" so that the only allied plane is me:
Approaching the bombers they started shooting at me:
I put wing leveller on for this and watched in F9.
There's a 110 on my six and he is shooting at me:
...........and he got me: