>>367282913
Yeah, it can be frustrating. You need to treat every missile like it's life and death (because its) and maneuver in ways like >>367283367 says, staying low and using terrain to break LOS. 

It's easy to ignore the RWR, but it gives information critical to survival about location and status of air defenses and enemy fighters. One thing that's easy to miss is some systems can fire on you and you'll only ever get a missile warning when it goes active, making it too late. Keep an eye out for smoke trails (you can spot them at a great distance).

I think the MP coop and PVP missions are good for learning this stuff- you can't actually fail them, you just respawn, and you can quickly startup, launch, and learn from the mistake.

One good skill is 'notching'- place the radar missile or air defense you want to evade on your exact left or right (the RWR helps with this) and it will lose you in the background terrain (so being low really helps) and pop chaff. This works best when done at longer ranges or in the F-45, which is stealth.

Speaking of the F-45, I think that's going to be the best planes for newbies to try out. It's much more advanced than the F-26/AV-42, but the situational awareness that it provides is massive and I think it'd be really good for making sure people don't get frustrated and quit. We'll try the F-45 coop mission first at EU VTOL.