high strafe is a gunships best friend. It also helps engineer frigates get behind cover and/or dodge projectiles. The best thing about it especially, is you can strafe everywhere pretty quickly in combat, and this lets you have the <50% speed bonus from your implants always.
also, you want to know a super secrit about gunships? if you have high strafe, turn speed doesn’t matter. use expert mode, and as you turn strafe in the direction opposite to your turn while flying backwards.
of course this only works for guys with lots of forward facing guns. for anything else that is mobile and not explicitly a gun platform i’d expect liberal abuse of turn up/down