Well that's great that really sounds unfair, they can take more damage and can shoot you from a longer distance. Now if Dropships had more HP that would be nice. I find forge guns annoying too, Im assuming that whatever is taking almost if not all my shields down without my Dropship even moving is a forge gun.

CCP hates dropships, accept it, move on, get used to being shafted every time something is changed.

Extract from "life of a mercenary pilot" - by gbghg

Fly more than 5m from ground level and a tank can't aim that high. Get directly above (or close to it) and even when they fix turrets so we can aim up more than 10 degrees, you'll be able to bombard us safely and easily.

I'll have to try that out, thank you for the tip.

But then some douchebag with AV comes along and starts shooting. I have to say, I've been putting quite a lot of thought into whether ADS will be viable in Corp battles, and I seriously think they're not. 1 guy with militia AV is enough to close off areas of the map to an ADS and that's in a pub match with randoms on the other team, a full coordinated enemy team would either kill it, or render it all but useless.