I bought Phoenix recently and I think it's great. I haven't used any others, I've seen Real Flight in LHS but the controller is mode 1, I'm mode 2, so never used it.

No controller comes with Phoenix but i connect it to my DX7 and it works great, still have all my throttle hold and idle up through the DX7, very simple.

Although I can't say which is better, i can say I'm happy with Phoenix