So, I bought the BS KingAir over the weekend. Flies great...incredible systems depth. But, as far as I can tell, there's no way to program a lot of this functionality into hardware switches. It seems there's a lot of fly by mouse. That's a huge shame since, for many of those checklist pre-takeoff items, you really need that. Without it, I'd probably tend to fly this airplane as a "start with engines running" airplane....which defeats the entire purpose of all that depth. I'll be watching carefully about the Baron in the same way. If I can't assign any of the nice stuff to hardware, it's unlikely that I'd get them which is sad to say.
Gregg