It was the dual stick controls for the jet thrusters which took a little getting used too. Admittedly I haven't played a flight simulator / combat simulator in a very very long flight so I'm unsure what is the standard jet controls scheme for a controller. For the final jet stage I found the technique of flying very high then straight down whilst firing onto the tanks worked best whilst a more horizontal attack on the tanks would end up with my jet being shot down.
A couple of my favourite games are Battlezone 1998 and Body Harvest which are multi-vehicular games with "worse" graphics so I would like that artstyle too.