Previously, when I'd alt-tab the game there was a chance of coming back to it and having the joystick buttons "stick" down when pressed, meaning all bombs would toggle, the guns would fire until empty, VOX wouldn't stop transmitting, ect. When this happens, I cannot click bases on the map to move to them and when I spawn a new aircraft, one round is fired from each of the guns before I even appear on the runway. If I press a button (ie, trigger), the guns will fire until empty.
Now, out of 5 times launching the game, I've been able to not have it happen once. I would assume it has to do with swapping between windowed and fullscreen modes (as AH does when you minimize it).
Joystick is a standard X-52.
DxDiag