One such occasion is during attack runs on capital ships. Another excellent time to disable the compensators is during a high-speed initial pass through a large cluster of enemy fighters. Finally, multiplayer Terminus games are the preferred hunting grounds of inertial compensator experts. If you plan to win network games, learn when to disable them, or expect to die a lot. Instead, you can target the nearest object, cycle through all objects, cycle through all UEL craft, and so on.
Many missions feature hostile mercenary fighters.
Worse yet, only some of them will fire on you. The rest will be innocently trying to go about their business. This is too bad for them, as the only way to deal with these missions is to kill every merc ship you see. Just keep telling yourself that they have no business flying around in a war zone and take them all out. First, and most important, eliminate the fighter escort.