Yeah. I tamed him when we first found out about them. Jean made me custom armour pieces for when I take him into battle.

[Sometimes, that's necessary - or he deems it so, in any case -, like when he tackled the hunt for the dark albatrosses, but he takes care to not expose the mount to more danger than necessary. It's just an animal, not a summons or artifact.]

What do you do when you have to fight in the air? Or do you just avoid quests like that?