I just checked the settings and everything is on its highest settings. I get the effects now by simply switching from cockpit veiw to spot plane veiw!
I beleive when I saved this flight the tomcat wasn't working properly and now that I have fixed the file and installed everything properly. That switching to the cockpit loads the new tomcat and unloads the old one.
So in short I think I need to just create a new saved flight and set it as the default with the afterburners working! heeheehee ;D