If I were to buy one of the PCATD's what one would every one recommen???
ASA ONTOP or the ELITE, Jeppesen. Are there any I left out?

It all comes down to money: if you want the radio console, the
Jeppesen package is by far the cheapest and more than adequate for
home use. The "basic" console is not great, but still order of
magnitude improvement over using the mouse. Its not just that its
inconvenient (mouse/keyboard), but I noticed the hardware controls
somehow encouraged much deeper immersion into the environment. There
are no excuses for performing poorly, because "its not realistic
anyway".

Elite is the best, but an all-hardware package will run at least
$2000, vs the ~$1000 for Jepp. But the Elite hardware will be much
better, no doubt about it. Software-wise, the old Jepp FS-200 was
crap, but the newer FlitePro version (I had 6.2, I think) was not bad,
smooth gauges, etc.

Finally, FlitePro is at most a high-perf single-engine sim, Elite used
to be the only multi-engine setup you could get, I believe.

Martin