Beware, the above "USB" cable is just a regular FMS PIC-serial interface with an embedded USB-to-serial converter.
Such an interface supports only a couple of sims besides FMS:
[link=http://www.milehighwings.com/sim_compatibility.htm]http://www.milehighwings.com/sim_compatibility.htm[/link]
From the other hand, a true USB interface supports all simulators working with Windows joysticks as well as some of Mac sims.