Flight on a first character in DragonFlight is DragonRiding quest. If you stick with The Waking Shores guide, you will eventually start and complete that quest along with intro quests to teach customization and unlocking traits for DragonRiding. There’s also quests to teach you how to Race.
The Scouting Map will only show available zones (The Waking Shores, Ohn’ahran Plains, The Azure Span, Thaldraszus) The quest will be retrospective to the zone you choose, and it has absolutely nothing to do with dragonriding.
These are for unlocking other dragon mounts, there’s one for each zone, but this does not unlock flight.
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Complete Ohn’ahran Plains: Winds of the Isles ability.
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Complete Azure Span: Whirling Surge ability.
- Complete Thaldraszus: Bronze Timelock ability.
The quests are (optional) because not everyone is a fan with the racing side. See I knew it, can’t please everyone. Damned if you do, Damned if you don’t.
Adventure Mode has nothing to do with first character leveling, this is sorta like threads of fate leveling system where a character on the account must reach max level ( in this case 70 ) then alts on that account will have now two leveling options.
There’s also Renown, If you keep leveling your renown in each zone past level 10, alts get a higher rep exp boost while they complete quests and other rep earning activities and will level renown faster than the initial main character.