pedalspete,

If you have stopped by the "Homebuild Forum" you likely already know that I am building a simpit.  But if not.... I am.

I am using the Goflight VRP-166 units for the radio stack in that along with two other components.  The main radio stack will consist of 4 Goflight VRP-166's plus one RP-48 rotary / pushbutton module and one GF-45 multifunction display.  That will easily give me Coms, Navs, DMEs, and Transponder.

Ain't cheap........ but it is the best "bang for the buck" I have found for emulating the radio stack without the awful task of building them from the ground up.  

At the moment I have the RP-48 and three of the four 166's.  They look real, work great, and are a pleasure to use....... SO much easier than clicking stuff on the screen in the sim.  And they are always there ........ unlike the pop-up virtual radio stacks.

And I am hand building the throttle quadrant.

See the recent pix in the "Homebuild Forum".

best,

.....................john

Thanks for your input guys. Yep, they don't come cheap do they? I saw some Elite stuff up in Papua New Guinea which belonged to one of our U.K pilots. It looked good and he swore by it at the time. Paul, do you know if you can use the hardware in cojunction with FS2004 alone or do you still need to buy some of that really pricey Elite software as well?... Like the bike pics. Had a ride on a new Suzuki 900 the other day. First time I've straddled a road bike in years (wrote my last one off ) and it was an eye opener. My right wrist just kept having muscle spasms the whole time!