I use one for FPS games, and like it a lot.
For flight sims, you may prefer the OLDER version that only has 10 buttons.
In that controller, the "scroll wheel" is actually mapped to an analog throttle, which AH can use. I don't think you can map a regular mouse wheel to a throttle in AH or anything else.
If you already have a throttle, then it won't matter.
-Llama