The new Airbus' use a joystick similar to an F16 fighter. It's looks like a gaming joystick. The Capt's is left handed and the F/O is right and to their respective sides. The Airbus is a fly by wire aircraft in which the pilot inputs to the joystick and the computer calculates demand and sends it to the control surfaces. Here is a link that explains fly by wire .

http://www.apollosoftware.com/produc...re_english.pdf

I would think this would be hard to move up to Capt from F/O and change control hands. As far as the rudder pedals, I think they are the same in form and function. There is still a tiller wheel for ground taxi.
It's great to have a CAE guy online. We use IBM F40's and F50's to drive our sims. We use IBM work stations to simulate our Flight Mode Computers for navigation. All are tied together through an old 10base2 network. The visual and work stations feed a standard ethernet hub to the IBM's. Our newer sims are 5 to 8 years old. We still have old Sel(Encore) 32/77 32/67. We also have some old Motorola 187's driving the Thales sims.
Keith