Waxer, that is an amazing project! I've had similar thoughts that going the glass cockpit route would allow for more flexibility for the time and money invested in 'pit' building projects. With the DCS series alone, we have the current helicopter, and the A-10C on the horizon. It just makes sense to get the HOTAS / HOCAC & rudder pedals hardware the way you want it, and then utilize touch screens for at least most of what is left to deal with. We're fortunate that DCS has the clickable 3D cockpits, but even that can benefit from TB (as evidenced by D. Dastardly's terrific profile work.
I thought the MIMO USB touchscreen monitors looked like interesting possibilities as well. I really appreciate you sharing your experiences with those on here. It was a bit disheartening to see that you have run into so much grief with them.
I will be intensely interested to hear what your thoughts are about those after you spend more time on dialing things in with them. Based on what you have reported so far, I have to wonder if I would be better off avoiding the use of mutiple MIMO's on any single PC, and perhaps just utilize more of the All-in-one touchscreen PCs, and/or touchscreen LCDs being driven by video card outputs.
With the news about the impending ATI eyefinity (5800 series) capabilities to run multiple displays off of a single video card (similar to what the Matrox TH2Go, only more flexible, and at higher resolutions / monitor counts) things are getting more interesting.
Good luck with it, Waxer!
