hi I played this on xbox controller, pressing RT makes it very easy to fly

I played on my laptop and have tried this mission for couple of days but all failed. The plane always on the water and can’t take off. Wandering if that is a bug and I need to uninstall and reinstall play from the beginning. Or I need to gain enough fly levels/% of mission completion/ finish police and pizza mission(cause I saw your 150 life jacket and 150 life)