A few mates have purchased the Yaesu (spelling?) transceiver and been very impressed with it, they have also echoed the point about dont pay the extra money for the VOR/LOC capabilities as its a bag of cr@p!
One point a friend said is that he originally boght one with and up/down tunig button rather than keypad as said in a right pain, definitly go for one with a keypad frequency entry system instead.