T-Fighters….. or not?

When i first went through EoC, i picked up the turret fighters, used them for a few missions, and then stopped.

I found that to give them enough punch, i needed to use gatlings, but and anything other than point-blank range, they missed and wasted ammo. i needed to use very careful control of the fire/hold fire keys to control ammo usage. in large dogfights this was impossible, so i stopped using them and just outfitted my tug with normal gats and such. I never found them much use as wingmen, with their horrible aim, and i tended to lose them when i used my favourite maneuver (quickly flicking lds on and off to control velocity, when i on occaision messed up and left lds on, zooming away to never see them again, unless i returned to base.) I continued to use my own guns for the rest of the game, not even when i got the patcom and heavy corvette which had room for t-fighters and weapons.

Anyone else agree with me?