Also, with LFs you have to know your steering like nothing else. You need to be 100% aware as a stray mine or a lucky razor shot will instantly end you.
This is also unlike EVE in that gun selection and stats are irrelevant next to your ability to use them. I used to have a freelancer Arrow with Wildfire Chain Guns back in 4.84 solely to pick on bombers. It was great, I almost never got kills but I chased many people into speed dock points.
I'm a fair pilot whose strengths lie in strategy and foresight, but I'm on the weak side when it comes to piloting and aiming. Give me 16.67 guns or 2.00 guns and I assure you I can do with one as the other under any circumstances.*