I've had the game from the day it came out as a stand alone. I haven't played in ages, and the game resides now on 2 of my hard drives. At one time I had purchased all the planes that were available for the stand alone game. I've since contacted the developers and asked them to activate my stand alone account to make my steam account work and they've successfully done that.
All that said, I was in RoF the other day and found that my settings are quite what they need to be ... I have an old Microsoft stick and for whatever reasons, it doesn't seem to be working with the steam download. I can't fly for crap with a mouse.
Also, it appears you want to form the wrong group.
I only fly either 7 or 13.