Point 2 is a very good point.

I was able to get all the way from one side of the city to the other in almost a single glide last night, which I thought was great and after I landed, my group mate told me to explain how the hell I did it, so I gave gliding lessons for next 2 hours, which was quite fun, and actually profitable too! It's definitely a fine art to get the best flight time when gliding, so much so, I usually land in the middle of a lot of mobs, because I spent too long trying to get maximum air time!!

Changing channel is often abused however, especially with boss mobs, which is a pity as it's a nice mechanic to allow you to keep enjoying your gameplay, but is now being abused quite a lot!

Other tips from me would be to

Click the cog on the top left hand corner on the chat box to reduce the size of the font, as the default is quite large.

The BEST tip ever, is when at the auctioneer, alt left click and item in your inventory to post the full name of the item in the auction search box, to work out optimum pricing. This is definitely not widely known right now, as I've made close to 500k Kinah just reposting items for sale in the last two days. The auctioneer also takes account of capitalization!

As soon as you finish the noob island experience, get into the air and start harvesting. If you run out of air time, glide down, as this uses less flight timer (I find 2 pips is time to start heading down)

IF you screw up and fall, wait till about 20 feet from the group and hit space, you might have a little left in the tank to avoid a death and glide for just one second which will be enough to stall and just be a health hit, rather than a death.

And my final tip is, give this one a shot. Yes it is stylized and Asian and a bit grindy, but you know what, it's very good and very much fun. Try going to the other factions area and having a lot of fun, I've high hopes for end game!