I can't really remember FS back then, but I do remember playing X-Wing and Wing Commander 2.
In X-Wing I remember loving, but being absolutely awful at the training area. Just a big run of gates to go through, three at a time with little targets to shoot as you fly. Ah, the sound of a B-Wing just grinding against a floating, virtual metal spaceplate...
And in Wing Commander 2, we didn't have the manual at the time, so I had to try to figure out the controls alone. I got most of them, just never figured out how to lock on to capital ships in order to launch torpedoes. So any mission where I was assigned to kill a cap ship, I just ejected immediately so I could move on to the next mission. Yay, branching story!
Also mildly traumatized when we lost Spirit :(