When i try to fly a plane the plane is just black and when i view the outside it theres loads of floating land about my plane.
Its the same with every plane and place

I cant insert a screenshot, sorry

Is it because im running it on a vista?

More likely it is because you do not have a graphics card in your PC (laptop by any chance?)
instead you only have simple graphics chipset on the mother board.
That is the usual reason when folks come onto this Forum with this sort of problem.