"2. it has already been established that certain staffers have regulate those settings. "
Okay, you lost me here, storch.
Where did anyone establish that "certain staffers" regulated the settings, and by that I mean the stall limiter (which you can turn on or off yourself)?
Please refere to TrueKill's remark that is has been established that there is nothing staff members can do to pork, improve, or otherwise affect the FM in AH. Nothing, nada, zip..........
C'mon, storch, let this one go please.
Email HiTech or Pyro, don't bring this stuff to the BBS. Send them film of the behavior(s) you question and let them be the judge.
If I were a betting man, and I am not, I'd be looking at your controls, i.e. joystick, pedals, cables, etc....I was having weird problems, thought it was the something inside the game, turned out to be a rare spike in my joystick. Didn't happen often, not anywhere near a regular basis, just often enough to tick me off and make me wonder the same thing you are (just not out loud).