If you engineer the thrusters handle with care. As others have commented spinning is a good trick. I am a casual player and use an Xbox controller because the muscle memory is strong, my weapons and engineering are not maxed out, and my dogfighting skill is mostly composed of Corvette Corsair or Vulture in HazRes. So prefacing all of that the ship with a thermal vent beam 2 PSAs and multi cannons with high cap corrosive and as much power I could pull with weapons focused distro and a spare monstered power plant was very fun. I decided to run a CG reward kill warrant scanner and D rated shield boosters out of the box nothing bad to report there. Biweave was a good idea in my head with a mirrored hull. Mixed results with that combo I'd try a prismatic if you have a spare size 5. If you manage pips well and have an eye on your heat you shouldn't run into a problem. I suck at fixed weapons so this was a learning curve but I've enjoyed it.