Hi all
Downloaded the awesome A10 and had the gun no-fire problem (fixed that as per advice from these forums) and also found there was a no-silhouette-on-loadout-screen problem.
To fix the latter, browse to the objects/aircraft/a10 folder then
find the file called A-10A_loadout.bmp
then rename it to A-10_loadout.bmp
Then it will appear.
If you want to be really sexy, you can do a flood fill with a graphics program like Paint Shop Pro 8, using the eyedropper to sample the surrounds of, say the loadout screen of the add-on plane F105, which has a working loadout silhouette.
This makes the blank area around the silhouette the same as the blank colour in the rest of the screen.
With a working gun and a snazzy loadout screen, this plane, in my opinion, is no longer a beta (although an actual A10 cockpit would be nice).
All the best
Stiaan (new poster to this forum but add-on veteran http://home.iprimus.com.au/mandcsilver http://home.iprimus.com.au/stiaan )