[Nuke]

the reason you pull up and push over, and not vive versa is that the angular motion of the stick matches the angular motion of the aircraft. a mouse doesnt have an angular motion. so people tind to think that they are moving a cursor rather than changing a pitch angle. somone who is used to pulling up will find it untatural to think of the reticle as a cursor. it took me awhile to get used to freelancer's system.

[Kail]

Yes, Freelancer does it differently but the space combat mode of that game was extremely disappointing. I kept missing all my HUD indicators and targeting controls that I have in FS!

[Nuke]

indeed
i did enjoy having directional control of my guns though. i just wish joysticks were supported, retaining mouse control of guns.