Hi John,
I had to purchase spad next.
Ran the wizard, spent over an hour trying to setup my bip panel tiles, long story short, some stayed lit when they shouldn't and some weren't lit when they should be, quite a few things I tried to set were not obvious at all like in the original spad.
And even better, the gear lever on my switch panel, recognised movement in spad next, nothing in the sim, and fsuipc also wasn't picking up the movement when I tried to assign it.
Frustrating to say the least.
Here is a link to the avsim post that I followed to get soad working for P3d 64 bit, that mostly works for everything except the gear lever.
I have 2 radio panels, multi panel, switch panel and bip panel.
https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/531050-solution-for-saitek-panels-in-p3dv4/