I love my suncom sfs split throttle. Works great with AH, feels very heavy. Plus, you can reprogram it on the fly, in game, while flying. Has 2 4-way hats, though, so if you need an 8-wAy, you'll need to get something else. You should be able to get one on eBay for abot 15-20 bucks, and you'll need one of those radio shack game port USB adapters. Plus ps/2 keyboard.
I've seen people do some pretty funky acm with a p38 and a split throttle. Also nice for heavies of course.