Flight simulator and xbox 360 pad

Hi all
 
I have just noticed that there is a Microsoft Fligher Simulator gold edition out for sale and wandered if anybody knew whether its playable with the Xbox 360 pad?
 
I have the wired pad and it works fine with other PC games but I am curious to know how well it works with the Flight Simulator games?
 
Thanks

I'd say it wouldn't work too well, there are way too many functions to be able to simply map onto a controller. Most flight simmers use a joystick and a throttle controller and map everything else on the keyboard. Even the default keyboard and mouse as a joystick setting would be easier to use.

I don't have any experience with the issue (i play FSX with x52pro), but microsoft commercials and ads for FSX have a kid playing with the x360 controller. I say try it out with FSX, should work.