Sounds good. By the way, you inspired me to buy the J.M. Rolfe book entitled "Flight Simulation" on the other page, which came in the mail today. This is exactly the book I think you are loking for. I paid $14 for mine used, great deal. It goes over your questions in detail. I don't think the other book is of any value for you since it talks about visuals mainly, and you are more interested in controls and instruments.

On another subject, I said why don't you get a copy of Matlab from The MathWorks, Inc. and try to do some simulation on your own computer and see how things work. Unless you are really determined, I would have to take that advice back because it turns out fresh copies are several hundred bucks for even the student version. I am kicking myself because I had a copy at one point and it appears I either lost it in a move (not likely) or loaned it to someone who did not bother to return it.

So I would recommend waiting until you have read the Rolfe book to buy Matlab, and you may even want to put it off until you have a chance to enroll in a controls lab course at an engineering school before you go for Matlab. There are other ways to run flight-sim engines such as C and C++, so bear that in mind as well. Matlab is in fact based on C.