A: Frame rates on this game have been consistently bad in the first place. My machine is way over the top for such an old game, but performance has been terrible.
AMD 8350 OC to 4.33, Corsair H100i v2, two 1070s, 16gb ram, Samsung SSD.{F70434}
B: I bought this game specifically to play around with ground attack aircraft. As it is, I can't fly anything due to this issue.