Sadly, Aceface's workaround could kill your turn rate for a small ship(where turn rate actually changes, on big ones it's always 1.0, though big ships are not the norm anymore. Mass based turning when?
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Having this would be really nice, though if it's a big bother you can at least return the mass-based turning and put in a tutorial or something on making a floating cockpit(to allow the flood of steam users to have third-person). :p
Schema could make it a fake cockpit system-entity that you can place on that block area so long as there's no other block there, if that's possible.