Well, it sounds like to get around another glitch, the devs wired the brakes "always on" such that the player has no control over them.
People keep saying, there are no brakes in BoP, but if the planes are anything like they are in Il-2 1946, there is no way that they could stop without hard breaking, and the planes in Il-2 1946 most definitely will pitch if you do it wrong:
