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[Mesa]

Alright, so I've decided to do a little bit of wandering around and gave my humans wings + [FLIER] tag.
At first it kind of worked, I could fly (although only up to a certain height, unless I found a higher vantage point of sorts), but now I can't - that said, when carefully moving off edges it does say my character is flying - he doesn't fall down, but I can't move in that state, only via careful moving.

What do?
I want to explore my world in a more epic way, but I apparently can't for some ungodly reason within like 30 seconds.

EDIT: Oddly, now I can, and could fly up even higher than before.
What, is flying dependent on wind or something? Does DF push it that far?

EDIT2: Also, sometimes when I'm high up in the air (or not that high, sometimes), I can see those pitch black solid impassable walls of God-knows-what that block movement from below and from the sides - could it be what was limiting me in one of the earlier areas?
On a side note, strangling an owl mid-air that falls down and bleeds to death is truly an epic kill.

[Heimdall86]

It might be that you cant move to areas above a certain point because of how the world generates. It only makes like (10?) levels above the top layer of ground by default. Not an expert, just a guess.

[Stirk]

This is typical behavior, not an error at all. You see, some areas generate higher then others, so for example on a mountain you could probably go several stories up, but on a plane you might not be able to fly at all. After all, the game isn't made for flying adventurers, so it is bound to be a little weird.

[Spirit of Power]

This is typical behavior, not an error at all. You see, some areas generate higher then others, so for example on a mountain you could probably go several stories up, but on a plane you might not be able to fly at all. After all, the game isn't made for flying adventurers, so it is bound to be a little weird.

Basically this. Each area has a "roof" which you can't fly above, and on flat areas you may not be able to fly at all. Those black walls can represent the boundaries of a map tile, because what you're actually seeing is the "roof" of the tile next to you, and you can't fly above that.

[Mesa]

Well, that's pretty shitty, since it severely slows down my mountain travel. D:
I would love to see the "roof" raised to a higher level, since apparently birds and the like seem to ignore them completely.

[Putnam]

Birds follow it just as much as you do. There's an infinite sky plugin for DFHack.