Only issue I've had it that flying an asteroid field while drunk leads to collisions.
Shuttle escort has very few fighters coming from ahead so the rest you can hear coming in left or right, usually 2-3 ata a time. Then its just the destroyers, guns or missles do equally well and you can neuter one fairly effectively with just the basic ship.
You've got wasd for dodging about and space for rolling, targetting is point and click. Really simple and really quite fun with some, obvious, pauses in combat for the eyecandy.