Flight

Overview

Flight unlocks one of the most useful attacks: Air Superiority. Fly as a travel power is one of the safest ways to travel.

Powers

Hover

Very slow version of fly. Costs little endurance though and is very useful in combat. Slotting Hover with 3 Flight Speed Single-Origin Enhancements allows you to fly at slightly less than walking speeds. Hover and Fly also grant psuedo Knockback protection. You may still get knocked back and spin around, but since you're flying you don't have to worry about jumping back up.

Air Superiority

Moderate damage, foe knockdown and -fly. Very useful in bringing down flying foes, and slotted right can literally juggle foes to death. It has very good accuracy on it's own and good chance to knockdown.

Fly

Safest way to travel, though initially the slowest and most expensive. Unslotted fly will drain your endurance in about 5 minutes.

Group Fly

Effective Fly for you and your Team members. Same endurance usage but at slow speeds, and a major hit to Accuracy. Not recommended for use in combat.

Flight Speed

This section only applies to the speed of Fly. Hover and Group Fly use different calculations.[1]

Calculating Flight Speed

Feet Per Second

(21.00 FPS base) + ((1 + sum of enhancements) * (18.18 FPS + (LVL * 0.21)))

Miles Per Hour

(14.32 MPH base) + ((1 + sum of enhancements) * (12.4 MPH + (LVL * 0.143)))

Flight Speeds

Speed at Level 14

Enhancements	FPS	MPH
None	42.12	28.72
1 Flight DO	45.65	31.13

Speed at Level 22

Enhancements	FPS	MPH
None	43.80	29.87
1 Flight SO	51.39	35.04
2 Flight SO	58.98	40.22
3 Flight SO	65.46	44.63
4 Flight SO	66.60	45.41

Speed at Level 50

Enhancements	FPS	MPH
None	49.68	33.87
1 Flight SO	59.23	40.38
2 Flight SO	68.78	46.89
3 Flight SO	76.93	52.44
4 Flight SO	78.36	53.42

Note: you cannot reach the flight speed cap through slotting alone.

Notes

• TopDoc's Complete Movement Guide
• As of 8-16-06, Swift, Quickness and Lightning Reflexes now grant a bonus to Flight Speed, in addition to their existing Resistance to Flight Speed debuffs.
• Also, on 8-16-06, there was a reduction to endurance cost for Flight.

External Links

Flight Pool at City of Data v2.0