@KorpusDraige - it depends when you deploy the AA mine. Every good pilot will get at some point during a streak. Most good pilots will locate anybody with a stigla and go for the kill.
Good infantry players can bait good pilots by firing lock ons at them, then deploying the AA mine at the last moment.
I’m talking strictly Scout chopper pilots. And i’ll repeat my comment earlier: it depends on the map.
On maps like Dawnbreaker or Floodzone it works well. On maps like Golmud it l’s less effective.
Attack choppers can stay out of range and any decent gunner will take you out. And against jet pilots they are nothing but a mild annoyance.
Edit: looks like the word I used for “overconfident” is not allowed. I should’ve used “penisy”.