I'm trying TIR again, so I'll be especially easy to kill for a while -- until I give up...again.
Here's a tip I use, if you turn off the "lean" axis (not on gaming machine atm, not sure if X Y or Z), you'll still get head rotation, but it will use your preset hat switch head positions, ie: if you turn head right to face back right, you'll see the same view as you did when pulling the hat switch back right.
Of course you can't lean and look around stuff, but I personally find it more intuitive for my flying, give it a go!
Steely