Steady Flight
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 Riding (Profession)
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Steady Flight (originally just flying) is the term used to refer to the flight style introduced in The Burning Crusade, differentiating it from the skyriding physics-based flight style. It is unlocked upon reaching level 20 to learn the Riding skill "Expert" with a speed of 220%, with a "Master" riding skill at level 30 increasing the speed to 420%. 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 flight style typically requires completing some criteria to unlock it for new continents. Once the skill to fly in an expansion is unlocked, all characters on an account automatically learn to fly there as well.
- Flying in the Shadowlands (excluding the Maw and Korthia) is unlocked with
[Memories of Sunless Skies], awarded from 
[60] The Primus Returns. - Flying in Zereth Mortis is from
[Unlocking the Secrets]. - Flying in Khaz Algar is from
[The War Within 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] and the Broken Isles required 
[Broken Isles Pathfinder, Part Two] but they would no longer be required for flying as of Shadowlands. Kul Tiras and Zandalar required 
[Battle for Azeroth Pathfinder, Part Two] prior to patch 10.0.7. Unlike past achievements, the 
[Dragon Isles Pathfinder] requirement was removed sooner with patch 11.0.0.
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
Hotfix (2024-08-07): Steady Flight should no longer be removed after entering an Arena. - Patch 11.0.0 (2024-07-23): Now referred to as Steady Flight, now learned at level 20, and its speeds were increased to 220% (Expert, up from 150%) and 420% (Master, up from 310%).
Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 30 (down from 60). 
Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): Now learned at level 60 (down from 70). 
Patch 2.0.3 (2007-01-09): Added.