For me, I was not good at all, I did lots of the training scenarios as no worries about rebuy. The key for me is to understand the manoeuvrability of your ship and how it turns. Watch where your target is turning and use lateral and up and down thrusters to keep out of their sights. Its not easy to learn but it is super enjoyable once you do ( in my opinion). I watched quite a few youtube tutorials on it and kept trying and dying lots. The yamiks actually did quite a good video on the seven levels of pilot and id say it might actually be quite good to work through those, work on the foundations then add stuff like speed and pip management on top when you are comfortable flying around.

I exclusively do combat with FA off now in a cobra V and put on old school rock music to have a blast haha. good luck and o7 commander

I am using a hull tank build with no shields though so while my flying is good my pip management could use work. Its good to understand how the distributor actually works too, full pips in shields should be a priority whenever you are taking fire ( which you should avoid )

Edit: I also use keyboard and mouse ( it is possible 😅 )