Pedals are a total waste of money.
The flight behaviour reality of any PC sim is very poor and pedals are thus wasted.
In fact I think a yoke is a waste of money too. I had the big yoke (CH?) which cost over £100. It felt like a plastic toy from McD. A simple "F16" yoke for a tenner or £20 is all that one needs to practice procedures.
FSX and FS2004 are not copy protected, IIRC, but FS2000 required the original CD in the CD drive the whole time, unless you got the cracked executable. Today, you may as well just get FSX. It is quite good enough to practice QXC flights
