What is it with everyone who plays BF2 acting like joysticks are some foreign ungodly cesspool. Have any of you ever played any other flying games with joysticks? Learning to fly in any game is like learning to drive. At first you overcorrect the hell out of every movement and soon end up in the ground. Learn to make less correction and you will fly much better.
I switched from combat flight simulator, to bf1942, to Desert Combat, to BF2 without any problem after first learning to fly in CFS. It really isn't that hard and the advantages are so obvious, yet so many people post joysticks suck and keyboard and mouse is the way to go. You don't see a keyboard mounted on the dash of a Cobra with a razer mouse now do you?
All I'm on about, is stop encouraging people not to try their joysticks and just shutting them down saying keyboard is the only way to do it. It's one way to do it, but it is not the best way! If there's one more pilot out there using a joystick properly, thats one less retard ramming the blackhawk your in into the nearest static object! Any other community of gamers who play some kind of game with flight, would tell you you're insane not to use a joystick, yet 90% of people here condone keyboard use. No wonder everyone walks over friendly claymores, mines, team-kills you on purpose etc.