Yup, F/A18 Interceptor was probably the best known and also one of the best to play - full stop!
The 'feel' was spot-on. It might not have been the most technically accurate (but most of those type of sims can be yawn-inducing), but it was the most playable by far.
I think TFX was the most up to date sim, but since it needed a pretty powerful system to be any good, I doubt it was very popular and it wasn't released until the late 1990s (from memory!)
Mike.