100% agree on all the Blackhawk topics, except:
"A beeper trim system for the stick that was of no use (and no-one ever used it to change anything when the trim release worked much better)."
Our guys use that to good effect on instrument holding! Works far better than fighting the trim or releasing it alltogether. The new guys don't use the bleeper, but the old guys do, so it just adds more distance between the good old guys and the youngin's!
Mike