They indeed are not too hard to bring down if you learn to shoot in convergence.
The only thing that bothers me is that even an engine fire / the whole cockpit engulfed in flames will not do any harm to the pilot currently. I have just waited until the fire extinguishes and kept on fighting quite a few times now.
In real life, you would be dead if you are not out of the cockpit by 10 seconds according to a pilot's quote on a documantary somewhere on youtube. Even if that could be considered as a doubtful source, anyone with reasonable common sense could agree that you want to get out of the cockpit as fast as possible and not wait until the fire is out in R/L
Something to be fixed hopefully.