Jet are ultimately broken.

Agree, but nobody in DICE cares about JET group in BF2042. They just nerf or remove everything works fine in past BF series. R.I.P JET and Chopper pilots.

Outside of being NPC missile launchers the are garbage and unfun their gameplay consists of flying around locking on to things and flying away constantly on repeat one of the worst vehicle designs in battlefield history hands down. Cannons suck the jets fall out of the sky when slowing down they just feel clunky the physics is broken skill ceiling is low skill floor is insanely high. There's so much to fix idk where to even begin I know they only care about new players doing good but pointing a middle finger to all the BF veterans and pilots was a BAD MOVE mark my words this franchise is nothing without its OG BF fans. 

@AerialDominancethere here is the most frustrating example of flight physics I encountered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GDQmWRMacc

Yeah, one needs to be an ACE to make good use of the jet cannon in  this game

Thanks for all the replies. It's good to know I'm not the only one!

Maybe I should've also added that they chose to make Jet and Heli controls the same.

@Hudson009I'd argue if the real life counterpart can, why should it not be able to do it in-game? It's fun and was possible in BF3 and BF4.

Damage is fine. They should just remove the spread from the 20mm canons. Increase spread on the 30mm canons but give them a little bit of splash damage. Every 30mm Canon in the Game has insanely high splash damage like the Bolto. In the Time I get 30-40 kills in a breakthrough match with a jet i can get more than 100kills in every other vehicle even the hovercraft or the bolto wich are „transport vehicles“. The jets are a joke: fly in, lock on, fire, fly away, repeat. So boring lol 

I also think the air superiority plane in this game is the worst ever.

The fighter that exists to suppress the astonishing attack helicopter to the ground troops is the framework of the same attack aircraft.

Moreover, in order to obtain a missile for ground attack, an air superiority fighter that cannot be shot down is forced. No matter what you think, the order is reversed.

In this case, choosing an all-attack helicopter from the beginning would contribute more to the ground forces.

A helicopter targeted by a fighter will be out of range of the missile from the ground if it rises to an altitude of 1000.

If you pass upwards, you will be out of control, and even if you fight at the same altitude, the fighter will always be from the second seat Gunner because the flare will recover by the time the fighter turns again and shoots the missile again. Continue to take damage.

Fighters can also use flares only once, but attack helicopters can be headed on and shot from the back after passing, so damage is inevitable.

Since there are missile attacks from the ground, it must be said that the survival probability of fighters is very low.

Besides these, there are too many problems such as anti-aircraft radar that is too narrow.

It's the worst result ever.
Below the garbage. Mouse vomit.