Flying Mounts, Really?

I've only been gaming for a couple of years, but so far it's been a blast.  Most of the games I've done involve fantasy, and I'm cool with that.  With all of my characters in all the games I've played, we usually start out on foot, and then progress to horses.  It didn't really matter what we were playing; warhorses were usually our top mounts.

Now, with 4e, it seems that as you level, you get to ride beasts other than horses.  I think that's great, I think that's totally cool.  And, the rules for it are pretty fluid, too.  It's cool when your horse moves 10, or your wolf moves 8, and they each have their own special abilities. 

My question is this: Has anyone really tested out flying mounts?  I mean, I know there are flying mounts in the book, and flying rules in the DMG, and revised flying rules... I'm just wondering how it's gone in other peoples' games.  We haven't come across any flying mounts, and the DM isn't too keen on them.

So, what's up?  Does it work?  Should my dwarf-sized hobbit go after that Griffon?

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Awesome! Or am I behind the times?

So, one of the things that has bothered me about D&D 4E for a long time was the inability for small characters to ride mounts of medium size.  The rule in the DMG says, "Your mount must be larger than you, and no smaller than Large size."  Since my group is not so keen on using house-rules, my halfling character has been riding a mule (still large sized) for quite a while.  I've wanted to ride a wolf or dog or boar (or something) for a while, but the rules prevented this.

Low and behold I stumble across the errata (my group doesn't usually look into eratta) and what do I find?  The errata says to ditch the "and no smaller than Large size." limitation.  Woo hoo!

Guess what I'm getting?

I'm curious, am I way behind the times?  Has this rule been changed recently, or way back when?

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