Steady Flight
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 Riding (Profession)
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Steady Flight is the term used to refer to The Burning Crusade's flight style, differentiating it from the skyriding physics-based flight style. It is unlocked upon reaching level 30 to learn the Riding skill "Expert" with a speed of 150%, with a "Master" riding skill at level 40 increasing the speed to 310%. If a character is mounted on a flying mount and not in a No-fly zone, they are able to use the "jump" key to instantly take off into the air. Characters can move omnidirectionally and fly and hover for an infinite duration. Characters can invert themself by pressing pitch up or pitch down (normally ⌤ Ins and ⌦ Del) while in flight, doing a loop.
Unlocking
This flying style typically requires completing some criteria to unlock it for new continents. Once the skill to fly in an expansion is unlocked, alts automatically learn to fly there as well.
- Flying in the Shadowlands (excluding the Maw and Korthia) is unlocked for all characters with
[Memories of Sunless Skies], awarded from 
[60] The Primus Returns. - Flying in Zereth Mortis for all characters is awarded from
[Unlocking the Secrets]. - Flying in the Dragon Isles is unlocked for all characters from
[Dragon Isles Pathfinder].
Old unlocks and skills
- Main article: Riding § Old riding skills
Prior to patch 7.3.5, previous expansion areas had their own area-specific skills in addition to the flying riding skill itself. Northrend used to require 
[Cold Weather Flying], the Cataclysm world required the 
[Flight Master's License], and Pandaria required the 
[Wisdom of the Four Winds]
Flying in Draenor required 
[Draenor Pathfinder], Broken Isles required 
[Broken Isles Pathfinder, Part Two], and Kul Tiras and Zandalar required 
[Battle for Azeroth Pathfinder, Part Two] but they would no longer be required for flying as of Shadowlands.
Trivia
- The term "static flight" first appeared from the spell "Flight Style: Static" (now
[Flight Style: Steady]) in patch 10.1.5. It was still referred to as "static flight" in The War Within's alpha but would change to "Steady Flight" later in the alpha, in contrast to the newly added "dynamic flight" system (now known as skyriding).
Patch changes
Patch 11.0.0 (Beta): Now referred to as Steady Flight. 
Patch 2.0.1 (2006-12-05): Added.