For my warthog, the 8 way hat switch is set for the views, fwd, fwd right, right, right rear, rear, left rear, left, fwd left, for the 8 views. On my throttle I have a button set to "look up". pressing that and any of the hat switch gives me that left AND up look your talking about. Press and hold the up and you hit the other hat.
For axis I use them for map zoom and view zooms. The roller on the mouse is set to zoom in and out when the clipboard map is up, but I rarely use the mouse once in the game and in VR never. So I have a button mapped to bring up the clipboard, and another to go to zoom. Once you are in zoom I use one axis slider to zoom in and out on my view, and another for the zoom on the map.
Once you have your settings like you want them its easy to transfer them to the VR side. Normally you have to go into VR and set everything all over again, but a shortcut is navigate to the settings folder in the game folder find you joystick "jsm" file, copy it and rename it with "VR_" in front of it and save. Do the same for your rudders and throttle.