No options to change the crafts. It's locked to be a Ulysses with a bank of PromR.
I was using the release files from the 1/01 release of the game. I played this very mission yesterday correctly, though after failing a few times, I decided to continue with the campaign the next day (today). It was fine yesterday... it's glitchy today. No mods have been installed in about 2 weeks. All mods are in their own folders.
The pilot file shouldn't be a problem... it worked perfectly yesterday. I know the first one is seen in most missions for whatever reason. I have the FS2_Open 3.6.9 1/1/07. I'll redownload the 1/12/07 files.
No reset-loadouts. I was trying to locate the actual EXE crash file (as seen in 0005.png), though when I looked in the temp folder, the file wasn't present.
I don't see any reason this should be glitching now. I always did proper shutdowns of the game, though I did notice that when trying to load the OGG's for the cutscenes, it would crash the game. Restart the game and it would be fine. It worked yesterday, as said several times. Nothing new for it today.