Issue Landing with F4F

[Muffles]

After playing the game on GameTap, and enjoying it a lot, I decided to buy 1946 to get the rest of the content, but I'm having a weird issue with the F4F, in the beginning of the USN Pacific Fighter Pilot campaign. When attempting to land, my gear never goes down. Pressing the Toggle Gear button does nothing, it never says that the gear went down, and the Gear Up/Down buttons don't work either, same thing, no message saying it went down, and it never goes down. I've been autopiloting through the landing, as the autopilot seems to be able to get it down, but that feels like cheating, and I know I'll never learn if I don't go for it, but it's impossible to land without tearing the plane to pieces, because of the gear issue. Am I missing something? Is there a special way I need to do it with the F4F? I also can't seem to pull the gear up after taking off. They seem to be already up when I go to pull them up.