Mission 09 Triggers?

[Grizzly473]

Need a little help here. I don't want to say the mission is bugged, but I can't seem to get this mission to advance after take off. I join up with the formation and then we just fly around in an orbit at waypoint one, 10 or so miles from Indian Springs. I have tried many things to get the mission to advance to the bombing range. I have manually selected other waypoints, flown at different spacing and positions within the formation. I have read the briefing files. I think I'm just missing a trigger point, but I don't know what trigger I am supposed to hit that I'm not. Again, I don't want to say it's bugged, even though some random things don't work right at times. For instance, I just tried to run it again and Jester wouldn't talk, no auto switching of radio channels. I just want to complete the mission, so I can complete the campaign, so I can start the new Red Flag campaign. 

Thanks,

[Reflected]

I have a hunch: did you hear the line "Flaps up"? Some people have it assigned to a HOTAS switch, and they don't raise it fully. The actual switch in the cockpit has 3 positions: down, slats and up. You need it to be in the "up" position. Verify in game if you don't hear the line.

Edited April 19 by Reflected

[Grizzly473]

That was it! Hitting that flaps switch twice on my HOTAS did the trick and mission completed 100%. Thank you sir!