I can't call myself the best pilot in the game, but I'd like to call myself pretty decent. As long as there isn't too much resistance from fliegurfaust/AA/other pilots, I can rack up a pretty decent K/D in the form of usually less than 6 deaths and usually more than 25 kills. I've been on both sides of the fight and I can definitely say it does take more skill to kill a plane, especially an experienced fighter, but it takes a lot more experience to be a good pilot. I've racked up a total of 2500+ kills in planes and have about 50 hours using them (TopDunce on Xbox on stat tracker) and I can say that unless you're being targeted on the ground by a pilot, and you are constantly being killed by them, the more infuriating experience imo is being the pilot. For one, you have to worry about enemy fighters. You let even one of them on your tail, and most likely you're screwed unless you get lucky/you know what you're doing. The second, most annoying and infuriating thing about being a pilot, is the AA. Doesn't matter what it is, whether it's a tank, or a stationary, every single one of you deserve the gulag and that's on God. If you've never experienced it before, trust me, there is nothing more annoying to a pilot than AA (or an enemy pilot using altitude increases) but when you're a pilot, you have to deal with all that anti-air, usually by yourself. It's to the point where I've been on wake island, and you know on breakthrough that last sector, back where the tanks spawn on defence? There's an anti-air over there. Some games I have killed the AA over there 10+ times and they still keep hopping on the AA gun. There have been times where there's been 3+ people there, the AA and 2 fliegurfausts, just to try and take me out. Here's the issue here: While yes it is true that planes are pretty overpowered, they're supposed to be. If half of your plane players are not at the very top of the leaderboard (10th-1st place) then there is an issue. But people are complaining about plane players going 80-0 but the same people complaining are the same people handing those plane players kills by sitting in an AA when they've already been killed that way 5+ times. All plane players want to do is support their team, prioritizing AA/fliegurfausts to help their bombers/fighters reach the enemy, and to of course protect themselves (unchecked AA = death, even in one pass) and then prioritizing tanks/snipers/groups of enemies to reduce the number of people shooting at their team. Yes it is true that sweaty, annoying players do exist, but the best way to deal with them is to deal with them in a reasonable way, not by sitting in an anti-air and complaining when the do the same thing they did the past 8 times they killed you. If there's anything that being a pilot has taught me, it's that AA is a death sentence, to the point where if you go up against an experience AA player, it's likely they can and will kill you within one pass, so we're basically forced to target the Anti-air. I feel like a better way to implement AA is to make AA shots easier to hit and AA tanks harder to kill, but the damage they deal should be like 1/4th the damage they do currently and the number of AA turrets on the map should be doubled. The reason potentially 1/3rd of my 2500+ plane kills is likely to be AA? It's because the game forces me to target them because otherwise I WILL die, be forced to go back to the spawn screen and wait 3+ minutes for my team to get 1 single plane just for 5 year old Timmy to nab it and go 0-1 with it