Hotas setup for the upcoming Cliffs of Dover

[Toeknee]

Moving swiftly on from lady bits to joysticks...

As an enthusiastic newbie to IL2 (seriously, I don't know what it is but IL2:CoD has me seriously excited - kudos to the devs and community) I've been scouring the forum for recommendations of suitable joysticks that don't cost the earth but will serve as a decent entry level setup.

So far I've read good things on the Saitek Aviator in another thread, and the Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS Torian mentions here. There's not much between them in cost, however, one is HOTAS,the other has a split throttle, one has a handy looking rocker switch (a friend suggested using this for yaw control over the twisty stick, thoughts?) , the other doesn't etc. etc. *brain explodes*

So, to those experienced folk; which would you buy if you were about to take-off into the rather wonderful horizon of IL2 for the first time?

Thanks in advance!