Problem:
I purchased BOB COD from Steam and had it installed, but I found I could not view Pilots or Aircraft, and hitting fly caused me to CTD and just had sound running.
Solution:
IF you bought the game off Steam (maybe other Digital Downloads too) as I did, you will need to:
1) Browse to your game folder and find the folder 'redist'.
I found mine here :C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\redist
2) Try running the Direct X installer. ( This was the problem for me, but I had tried running other installers in there too).
(Thanks to whoever originally posted this elsewhere, but seeing as I could not find it in this thread, here it be).
Cheers
