This game kind of reminds me of Warhawk for the PS1.
I gotta admit that I struggled a lot with the mouse control scheme. I was expecting sort of a WASD control scheme with the Shift key controlling the speed up and CTRL key for the speed down. I'm aware that controlling the plane with the mouse gives you more fine control, but it took me quite a while to get used to and to be honest I never completely managed to learn. I used the invert mouse movement by the way and every time I died it did reset back to the normal movement, which was a little confusing when I noticed, I had to turn it on an off again every time I died.
Other than that once you get the afterburner the movement is much more fun, still a little complicated for me but it was fun.