Maddog X

Anyone using the Maddog X in FSX:SE? I loved this plane in FS9, but since purchasing it for FSX it's been a disappointment.  The flight dynamics are very native feeling to the default aircraft, the ability to take off on shorter runways is not possible, and the LOC capture leads to zig-zagging.  I love that many aspects of it are realistic and imported from how I remember it in FS9; However, those issues make it mostly unusable.  I can essentially master the PMDG 737, Majestic Dash-8, and A2A planes, but this is a mess to me.  Am I the only one??  I never get responses on their support site since they stopped updating the 32 bit version.