>>Well, given that I (on rare occasions when I have time to play a sim) insist on starting Hawker 800's engines manually, APU and all, this one is probably not for me... <<

How are you going to do all that with a game controller with 8 buttons?
Press this sequence to turn on the fire extinguisher for the right turbine engine: AAXOXOBBAAAOOXXX

Plus who can read a screen full of gauges at NTSC resolution? Add in Anti-aliasing on tomorrow's consoles and there isn't any room for both beautiful graphics and detailed gauges.

Now quit dreaming and go back to playing Longbow 2 on your 1.5Ghz with Voodoo 5.

-Hoagy.