Damascus2: First question. None of the Wildcats (F4F-3, F4F-4, FM2) seem to have working landing gear. I have the gear as joystick button 7, which works on all the other aircraft. With these three, it doesn't (as does the G key). I tried the carrier mission and found I couldn't raise the landing gear on the Wildcat. Is there a known Wildcat gear problem? Or is there a way to see if the aircraft file is bad?
Next, I just can't figure out which buttons will do what regarding weapons. I have joystick buttons 1-4 for the weapons (default values), but I can't guess which will do what. With some it appears Button 1 fires the MGs, with others B1 fires the canon and B2 fires the MG. As for Buttons 3 & 4, I can't guess which bomb will drop with those keys. For example, B4 is the bomb drop for the B-25 with a single load, but how about if I have two different loads?
And lastly, when I fly the Midway Mission with the SBD I can get a bombsight with the Shift-F1 key, but when I use the same plane in the Mission Builder the Shift-F1 key just gives me a slightly different cockpit view. Where did it go?

Damascus2: Thanks for the help with the F4F. What a pain! As for the button configs, I was flying the Gladiator in the service of Finland and found that the joystick #1 and #2 buttons fired the guns even though the Gladiator only had 4 machine guns and no canons.

NamelessFragger: The Wildcat uses different landing gear bindings-one to rotate the gear wheel up, one to rotate it down. As to why it's separate from the usual gear up/down key (G), I have no idea.
Go look through the control map for "Gear Up" and "Gear Down", and set to taste or just memorize the default bindings.