for the tow line release....pitch the nose up hard and it should release........it works on mine......using the winch and the highstart. i'm running FSOne on a 2.66 core duo intel imac with 4 gig of ram and windows xp in boot camp......runs great!! Also running the new JR PC Data Transfer Interface in boot camp...it too works well.......you do, however have to put the USB interface into one of the USB jacks on the machine and not on a USB hub.