SWTOR Galactic Starfighter Battle

I was an active player since SWTOR was released and until level 50. I had the role of officer in my guild and then decided to give a break after expansion came.

Now, I decided to continue so I subscribed to the game, have like 7500 cartel coins (don't know what to do with them yet) and took Starfighter quests.

First I played the tutorial, which wasn't sufficient at all. Just flying, doing a couple maneuvers and destroying drones. I wanted to play so I queued for a battle, and boom. I ended up with just a couple of kills, bunch of assists and aimlessly flying around and trying to escape from missiles and enemy Starfighters.

There are probably geared (or whatever you call for Starfighters) or customised players who really do well and their weapons are superior compared to mine (of course).

I always played Space Missions but they were simply against AI and was easy and fun for me.

Now, I am struggling playing this Galactic Starfighter Battle. I want to ask how can I learn it the easiest way, like which ship, crew members, skills to get and use as a starter so I can learn the basics, and then I will be sufficient to advance to new ships and members. I don't want to make my team lose or mad while trying to learn something so I want to learn with "what" and "where" to start.