You can do it on default but its easier when you max your sensitivities. I've tried both ways and I like my controls maxed rather than default.
Another important thing to remember when dogfighting is that if you get out of their firing cone, you won't be hit. Whenever my opponent and I end up circling each other this is generally what happens:

1. Opponent fires all missiles (this happens with 90% of all pilots-all in one blast), I fire two or three

2. Both pop shields, he starts to reload I fire when his shields die.

(The dogfight can end here if my missiles are on target. By this point usually he is severely wounded while I hopefully have sustained minimum damage if he hasn't died)

3. If he survives, his missiles are going to recharge before mine do inevitably, so just staying still is not an option, as shields haven't recharged either. So now I delay and get out of firing range by sliding under him (provided we are high enough up, if not I go over), and then either hit him with a TV missile (if I am soloing) or continue sliding out of his cone of fire. When my missiles have recharged I fire enough missiles to kill him, or until his shields come up.

4 if needed repeat, but instead of sliding under him as in step 3 I choose another way to get behind or to the side.

Keeping momentum is very useful in dogfights. If possible always be moving when your opponent is recharging missiles. Anything to delay being hit.
Also, if your opponent seems like a better pilot, never ever run. 95% of the time even with players who aren't very experienced they will just hunt you down and you will die. You cannot fight back when you are running, and they can, so don't do it.