Having Some Fun with Flight-by-Fowl
When you reach the perched building high atop the lake, don’t enter the door just yet. Instead, take out your Gale Boomerang and look around. There’s a spinning weathervane fan on the building’s gable. Aim at it; it spins and halts a rotating platform down on the Isle of Riches.
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Why do this? Because the rotating platform holds a chest with a great prize, and it’s easier to land on it if the chest isn’t rotating. |
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Before you begin your flying, consider spending some Rupees at Trill’s, buying bombs from Barnes or items from Malo or the small Goron, or visiting Castle Town to gain a bigger wallet from Agitha. If you don’t offload some Rupees or get a bigger wallet, you won’t be able to fit all the treasure in your wallet. |
With the rotating platform stopped, enter through the door that leads inside the house. Drop down the ladder to a sloping wooden floor. The exit is up the ramp, to your left and leads to the “fantastication” sign and Hylian Bridge.
Or you can head right, which leads to Falbi. He whoops and whistles, beckoning you to pay him 20 Rupees for the chance to fly onto the Isle of Riches to become a wealthy man. Pay up—this will be fun.
Falbi:
Somewhere between 20 and 30 years old, Falbi is a former circus member and is very tall, especially compared to the short Fyer down below. He’s begun a small business awarding fabulous prizes for those who can grab a Cucco by the legs and pilot it to a small platform down on Lake Hylia. Overly cheerful, he loves to gesticulate wildly and coax customers in for a ride. |
Step #1: Before you grab a Cucco, have your Iron Boots close at hand; make sure you can access them by pressing the Y button. Then choose a Cucco; they all fly the same, regardless of color. Step off the tiny platform and fly!
Step #2: For your first run, fly through the giant floating Rupee. You receive the amount indicated (the color indicates the amount of Rupees you receive), and the giant floating Rupees show the best landing trajectory to the Isle of Riches. Then swing left and head for the blue Rupee (5). As you arrive, make a strong banking right turn.
Step #3: Aim for the next giant green Rupee (1). By the time you reach the last giant Rupee, you’re too high and will overshoot the tiny rotating platform. You can still land on the lower part of the “Isle of Riches,” but where’s the fun in that?
Step #4: As soon as you pass through the last giant Rupee, put on your Iron Boots and take them off about half a second later. If you wear them too long, you drop too far and miss the top platform. Wear them too briefly, and you will overshoot it. This takes skill and practice, but you can definitely land on the tiny top platform!
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If you miss, ride the cannon at Fyer’s hut up to the Flight-by-Fowl building and try again. This time, put the boots on during the flight or as you leap, but only very briefly. Then follow the Rupee path. Rotating the fan atop the building to stop the upper platform also makes this much easier. |
Author NoteWe managed to land on the uppermost platform using the Iron Boots on our very first attempt! Even more amazing was that we’d forgotten to stop the platform rotating; it is definitely possible, so keep on practicing. |
Landing on the platform allows you to ransack all the chests on the Isle of Riches. Begin with the top rotating platform. Kick open this chest for a huge increase in your Rupee collection!
Overworld Chest #22:
Orange Rupee (100)
You must now be incredibly careful not to jump off the upper platform and miss the next ledge, or you’ll have to complete this flying game again. You must drop off the upper platform’s southwest side, hang from it, then land on the next platform below. You must crack open this chest, which is directly under the first.
Overworld Chest #23:
Piece of Heart #15
Piece of Heart
You got Piece of Heart #15! You collected 5 Pieces and formed a new Heart Container!
You’ve increased your energy level by another full Heart Container, but there are more prizes. Drop down from the same corner as you did before, to a larger platform that contains a treasure chest. Pry this open for another Rupee prize.
Drop to the increasingly larger platforms on this isle, and run over to another, smaller chest. The Rupee reward is smaller but still worth your effort. Now jump down to the next platform and avoid the floating lantern—that’s an Imp Poe. You must return for him when you can transform into a wolf at will. Instead, crack open the next chest.
Overworld Chest #24:
Purple Rupee (50)
Overworld Chest #25:
Red Rupee (20)
Overworld Chest #26:
Yellow Rupee (10)
Despite your ransacking of all the major chests on the isle, there are still more places you can fly to from Falbi’s Cucco flying building. Head back here via Fyer’s cannon, and start another run.
This time, aim directly at the Lanayru spirit cave entrance. As you near, you’ll see two protruding entry pillars, both with chests on them. You can fly and land on one of the protrusions, or fly and land on the middle ledge, grab another Cucco, and land on one. To grab the other chest’s contents, repeat the flying. Or wait until you have the Clawshot, which makes reaching the chests a little easier. The eastern chest has the higher prize.
Overworld Chest #27:
Purple Rupee (50)
Overworld Chest #28:
Orange Rupee (100)
The Rupees don’t end there either. Head back up to Falbi again and take to the skies hanging from the Cucco of your choice. This time swing right, and follow the series of giant Rupees down to a long thin rock in the lake’s middle. Either drop from the Cucco, or use the Iron Boots to land on the small platform atop a rock pillar.
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There’s a small ledge directly underneath Falbi’s dwelling that you can fly to, but you can’t grab the items there yet. Return here with the ability to transform into a wolf—we’ll tell you when! |
The main reason for landing on this rock is the view, but there’s a secondary reason (and a secondary Cucco) too. You can now fly via Cucco to the top of Fyer’s cannon hut and inspect the top of the cannon hut from this angle. Land on the cannon roof, then drop to the north side for a red Rupee (20), and then into a boat. Walk along a small crane attached to the hut to obtain two yellow Rupees (10). Then drop to the ground.