The logical solution to the original problem is that a bunch of wind daimons are commanded to carry the PCs where the commanding priest leads, or says to go (if he's too busy/chicken to go himself). The PCs are then hauled like sacks of grain to the Bat Back, do their wet work, and, if the priest survives, get carried back down. All the PCs need to learn is not to panic when carried. The "learn how to fly" bit is the NPC joking to the other Vanganthi while addressing the PCs (who he probably addresses as "all you Heroes", with equal sarcasm).
The PCs don't decide when or where to land, but they would probably have been commanded to "follow me" by someone, anyway, as even with a gift of multiple masteries they won't know air tactics, yet, anymore than someone with a new licence can do stunt flying right away.
> Can one form a band explicitly
> for the purpose, if one has a leader with multiple-masteries
> in the appropriate magic, say? (Hero Cult in the making?)
Only if the Narrator wants to go to the effort of following up with that, if the PCs decide that they like being the Orlanthi 82nd Airborne.
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