Is anyone else dealing with this?

lol I do that alot as I HATE air assets I lock onto choppers as they lift off, most of the time they can't deploy flares

I'm going to say you are using the flares wrong then. There are three tones: Targeted, Locked, and Incoming. You need to fire flares during the incoming tone.

You might be dumping flares too early or too late. You should try fire extinguisher, really nice perk. Pain to kill someone with it though.

Yeah and the lock on when you first get in, is campers spotting the spawn or a soflam i think?

It's all about timing and the distance plays a big part. Sometimes choppers if they are far away enough even when locked on they can still dodge missiles and like Red Clown said if they are close enough it ends up working like RPG anyway. I love using the
CITV station