A-10 has the most potential. Falcon is using an engine from the 90's. It has nowhere to go. A-10 on the other hand has room for things like dynamic campaigns, extra aircraft realisitcally modelled, etc.

I'm sorry but have you looked at BMS lately? Aging graphics, I'll give you that, but everything else is "up-to-date" or thereabouts considering this is a community effort. DCS A-10 has potential, Falcon BMS is already tapping into its potential.

Falcon 4 is a sim about one plane, the F-16, the other planes avionics and flight models are based on it and it can't be changed, unfortunately. That's the difference in potential between the BMS and the DCS.

Well, it does say DCS A-10 vs Falcon 4, which means the Warthog vs the Viper.

I may be wrong a few years down the line when DCS World matures, and I hope I will be! But as of this moment, with the current state of both sims, my opinion is that BMS has a lot of that "potential" already covered, except for that annoying terrain graphics. I love me some low-altitude ingress screaming over the terrain at 500 knots at 300 ft AGL, and that brings that ugly terrain right up to my nose. I miss my DCS terrain and my lovely GAU-8, but the A-10 is a one-trick pony while the Falcon is more "all around" hence my recommendation.

As for the OP's question, well, the "panels" themselves are not really interchangeable since the side console layouts are different, but I think if you have the switches wired properly, it would be easy enough to un-screw the relevant switches and transfer them to another panel with a different layout.

Just go with a Helios setup for your pit and it will be as modular as you could ever desire...

BMS - 60 frames constant no matter the action, weather, day/night
DCS - 50 to 15 fps depending on terrain, ground units, clouds, sun, TGP,...

It's like FSX, where you have to wait five years for the mainstream hardware to catch up. I can't spend 500 euros every year to keep up.

For me the F-16 would win.
The A-10C was always a placeholder for the next DCS multirole Jet. Ok now, BMS was first.
Also the future of BMS looks promising because its still WIP (especially A-G avionics).




ps: I had to decide between a Ka-50 or a Viper pit. Because the Ka50 is still more fun and challenging then die A10.

I have both DCS A-10c, and have had every flavor of Falcon, for the last 13+ years. I always go back to Falcon.