I found the cure for the texture issue. don't use a A2A plane in your default scenario use a default airplane and then change it to a A2A plane in the interface. This is from Lewis over at A2A (you should never use any complex third party aircraft as your default flight due to issues with initializ...

I also have the A2A C172 with the same exact pan issue - it only pans up. Tried resetting assignments to no avail. I also have the resolution setting issue decrementing by one and had boxy clouds / PAPIs before noticing it.