This may be old news to many of you, but its new to me so i'm going to express my finding. lol.
About a year ago I bought a cheap ($10) gameElements recoil controller (dual analog) from wal-mart. Using this control pad, I cut the sticks off of my old aero-ace controller, and CA'd them on the center of the analog sticks. This is a great options for a controller for FMS, expecially for those people like me (college student) who don't have $200 to spend on FS-One or Realflight. By adding the sticks it gives you a closer feel to a real radio. I found that using the analog sticks alone were good, but it felt too much like a Playstation game, and not like flying an R/C plane. I hope someone finds this useful, and it helps them become a succesful pilot.

Corey L