True, there are a lot of good points being said over here. But the thing that's confusing me is that the idea of the FTL kind of changes warfare completely. The whole flak screen is pretty much useless if you can just jump past it. Also, you can probably build a pretty simple weapon that can be remotely controlled to jump into an enemy ship and literally obliterate it in no time. If you just strap an FTL onto a zeppelin-like ship carrying fuel or any other flammable/explosive material, then jump it into galactica, that's it, show's over. We know the colonial FTLs can jump a moving formation very far away with very good accuracy as was mentioned before, even when galactica jumps in late, it still comes in in perfect position. We also know that cylon FTLs are even better. So no matter how it's spun the cylons could easily just start jumping fighters into galactica and mess up the ship in no time. The number of fighters they lose due to the flak screen are huge, so why bother attacking like that? And these are the fighters here not specially designed vessels.
And also a point was mentioned about the flak screen distorting galactica's position- They lock it down with dradis not visually, and that's even more accurate and faster.
And when it comes to the suicide issue, they really don't need a pilot if they make a ship designed for this task, just a simple computer and remote controlling.
I think it's one of those things that come with making a show so complex, there are things that will always be unexplainable but if these are left alone and you concentrate on the important stuff, you realize how great of a story the show actually has.