The helis in BC2 started off as being suicide machines, then several patches later they seriously became overpowered assrape, especially the Blackhawk, since the chainguns don't have to reload, are surprisingly accurate, and most importantly an engineer can ride along to constantly repair the damn thing. It's quite difficult to shoot down a heli with a rocket nowadays, at least on the servers I frequent, even when tracers are planted.

IMO, the heli should not have the ability to be repaired by someone riding in it - it should have to land somewhere safe and be repaired from the outside, just like the tanks.

I wonder how hard the jets are to pilot for newbies. Anyone remember the first days of BC2 when helicopters always crashed on takeoff (or went into the out-of-bounds area and couldn't turn back) 95% of the time?