I've seen it claimed a few times that a fluke of the design meant that it's weirdly manoeuverable at high AoA, I don't know how much truth there is to that.
It's certainly a very fast aicraft with a high power to weight ratio, especially for its time and its low drag airframe *should* make it decently quick to accelerate at least compared with its contemporaries.
Visibility and stability will be a problem, longitudinal stability with a heavy load is said to be quite dismal and unequally distributed loads are almost not worth flying with.
There were problems with drop tanks not being ditched properly generating an asymmetric load which has been responsible for problems. I don't know if that caused any crashes but it would probably persuade you to RTB.
Visibility will certainly be an interesting problem, I've seen the way they've implemented it in DCS and it's quite a painless process, using the provided periscope.
All the best fighters have periscopes right?