Flight-sim officianados may be interested to learn Saitek has a new product, the X-52, coming out this fall. No price listed yet, but the X-45 system is $80, and I seriously doubt this one will come in less than that.

I've used Saitek's line of high-end controllers for about eight years now. They are not perfect; there were serious design flaws in the X-36 and the X-45's spring system isn't as precise as I'd like, but for the price there literally is nothing else that even comes close.