[vonunov]

Part of the problem is rolling vs. yawing. Most players have something along the lines of LB mapped to powerslide + air roll. So when flying, they have to think (actively or otherwise) about when to roll vs. when to release LB so that the left stick X axis will yaw instead. This is, in my experience, very difficult to actually do.

There's a control config I tried and greatly enjoyed that addresses this. I want to get back into it but I haven't yet felt like dealing with the adjustment period again. This works best if you have a controller with mappable paddles.

  Left stick X: Ground steer and air steer (yaw)  
  Left stick Y: Pitch
  Right stick X: Air roll
  Right stick Y: Ground throttle

And then jump/boost/powerslide go on triggers/bumpers/paddles as desired.

Being able to simultaneously yaw and roll feels quite nice once you get used to it and allows for some surprisingly intuitive recoveries, wall jumps, etc. "Tornado spinning" is now as simple as pushing the sticks in opposite directions. Other interesting results can be had from the various other combinations of stick directions.

This does require you to no longer use the button pad for anything, so if you use ballcam toggle while playing, or need to peek at the scoreboard a lot, or need a thumb free for real-time quickchats, or whatever, then I hope you have a lot of extra paddles

[walr000s]

Another reason to envy controller players. I just can't get used to it.