For what it’s worth, while the flying controls aren’t perfect, they’re far from the worst I’ve ever seen. 1st person is hard b/c you can’t control the camera and look around or lock your view onto your target (that I’ve found anyway). But third person is fine b/c the view is wide enough to keep track of your target. I’ve had no problem doing fine in aerial battles or blowing away vehicles and troops on the ground.
I’m playing on a PS4 with the standard controller. I can’t imagine ever wanting to play a flying game with a mouse… Blech!
Yeah I generally wouldn’t play with the mouse if I was more into flight games (I used to have a joystick for that, but haven’t played anything aerial-based in so long that I haven’t gotten a new one), but, that said, you can be an absolute wizard in the choppers in the Battlefield series with a mouse. It is possible to do mouse flying very well.