If ur getting shot with a HAT then ur hovering on the same place like a newb and shooting stuff with ur leet thermals and zoom, thats not the way to go. Thermals made choppa pilots way too confident.
Well it's not just the thermals, it's actually better without thermals sometimes as its harder to identify vehicles.
What makes them more confident is the fact that the new Click to target system works so fast that pilots don't need to stay steady to fire their Laser Guided missiles, it's all just fly over, gunner fires a missile, then bug out.