Clearly you have no idea how to use an assault dropship. Please stop talking about the camera or they will try and change it again! Its perfect where it is.

Jets would be to op
flyign around scanning fo ur team and squad
Bombing tanks the PROTO missile lauchers and if it has 2 slots, damage mod
Ramming dropship
Assault Dropship skill becoming useless because of blaster turrets going around it,railgun turrets,and missile turrets
Jets would need a nerf

1.-Passive scanning: All dropsuits have a scan precision and a scan radius. Inside that radius, they scan (see) every unit that has a scan profile equal or higher in number to their precision ("the lower the number, the more precise the scan is", hence the lower the number of a scan profile, the less it can be detected). That's why scouts are good for passive scanning, because they have a larger radius and can catch more profiles due to their precision. there are modules to enhance all these atributes: lower profile, enhanced precision and increased radius. Also different suits have different stats.

2.-Jets: Nah, assault dropships can be really fast when you learn how to fly them, and very effective killing infantry after some practice. I don't see how jets would fit in this game, not for the size of the maps, but because there's no point in being faster than a dropship and probably you couldn't hit anything at that speed.
About people not using dropships correctly, it's because when you're not in their squad the time it takes to let you in is too long. If you want to transport people or be transported, you should use it in a squad, so you can coordinate on comms and request transport to certain destination or take others where they want to go. I do this all the time when i have a squad, we take uplinks to strategic places or move all together at the beginning of a match (especially useful in domination). When playing solo, i just use my dropship to reach a high place, and i don't want blueberries to get in, because later they won't get out when i try to recall my ship and most of the time they'll steal it and crash it.

Jets would deny dropships, they wouldn't have a way to fight back and would be easy targets. Nowadays there are already too many threats to DS's. How would you flight a dropship having jets in the sky, forgegunners and swarms on the ground, plus tanks? I just think they will never fit.

I really cannot see jets being implemented in any way that wouldn't end in either 1) ADSs being completely outclassed and useless or B) Jets being completely useless and UP.

I'm glad you knew someone was going to say you aren't good with a dropship, that means you show some sign of your scrubliness. Everything that I read in your op tells me you know very little about assault dropships and how they operate. Not that your bad with the camera (though you clearly are) but that you seriously don't know much about flying an assaul dropship in general.
The camera placement is not a design flaw, it allows you to see above and below the ship and a good FOV for your peripherals as well. I don't know if you were around for the camera changes in 1.3,.4,.5,.6 but they were all different aspects that you are currently whining about. 1.4 was great for shooting things with the pilot gun, but you couldn't see the back half of the dropship and would crash a lot because you couldn't see your engines or anything to the side. Of all the cameras I have seen 1.6 is the best (the one we have now)

I would hate to have my gun reticule stick, its nice to have it come up level so if I have to get out I don't have to reposition the camera to fly, as well as turn on my AB as well as maneuver away from the threat etc etc. Its not a problem, in fact it really helps you when you don't fight it. It takes a lot of getting use to but that's just the way dropships are, you have to learn from every death. So yeah get better with the camera scrub, practice untill your f****** eyes bleed.

I'm sorry you don't want to aim but its something you have to do, that's where the skill comes in. I fly with gunners so a lot of my time is spent flying, not shooting, and the only time I really ever shoot is on a hard target like an installation or a tank that requires the extra dps. Otherwise my gunners can kill infantry 100x faster than I can and can hit more accurately too, wasting less ammo and reducing the time the dropship is exposed. Furthermore I can do orbits with skilled gunners so I don't have to stay still to engage targets. When I have two gunners we can kill a tank in a single strafe run, even in the redline. Some people call this teamwork.

I can understand your frustration, sh-íts tough man. Dropships have never been easy and never will be. The camera has already gone through changes and we found this is the best option.

When did you start flying assault dropships?

I transport ppl every night with DS but i dont rely on random blues to fill my ship. I network here and in game with ppl so saying in absolute that the dropship doesn't feel a transport role because no ones boarding yours is only you perspective of it. The reason ppl are not letting you on their dropship is because your some random blue they don't care to wait around for because that risks taking a railgun while landed waiting on some random blue berry who will were a probably just shoot at the MCC anyway and waste all my ammo like a moron. The dropships are fine you just need to practice more. If you were an actual serious pilot since the days of free calls then you wouldn't be here saying dropships are worthless only new low SP pilots say that stuff.

It doesn't matter what you think an ADSs role is, jets will either be OP or UP against dropships.

ADSs have no defense against jets. Heck even shooting another ADS is difficult enough. If jets are strong enough to kill ADSs, ADSs are boned because they can't fight or defend, whether with with a squad or otherwise. Why bother using a +400k, 5 person ship when it's just as effective as a throwaway, 35k 7 seater?

If they aren't strong enough to attack ADSs, what's their role? What could they attack? Infantry is difficult when you're constantly strafing, and the only vehicle plausible to attack might be an LAV.