Finneblaugh’s Thaumic Float

What's it called? Finneblaugh’s Thaumic Float (nicknamed FTF)

What does it do? A priori, it is a toy spell, that allows the wizard who's cast it to 'float' a little space above the ground, and adding an informative line about this to your description (as well as informing others when you enter a room that you are 'floating above the ground').
In the past, its effects were only aesthetic, it seems, but now I'd say it is the most useful of the easy spells (it is harder to cast, though, after recent tweaks. See notes).
Thaumic Floating includes the following advantages:
1) Under its effects, witchy vines cannot tie you down (specially useful to PKs, I imagine, but also if you like killing npc Witches...).
2) It reduces the damage taken from falls from high places.
3) It's an obstacle to sinking on the water while it remains working.

Where is it? It includes some fondling of the air waves, so it lies inside the found in the Invoakatyons in thee Mysterie of Wind grimoire at the Unseen University library.

What does it require?: A feather (any kind of feather), which is consumed in the process.

What skills do I require? Air, Evoking, Summoning, Air (2)

Has it worked?: A good output should read something like this:

You prepare to cast Finneblaugh's Thaumic Float.
You drop a feather, watching it drift to the ground.
You probe the feather, concentrating on its affinity with the air.
The feather crumples into dust.
You call forth the spirit of the wind.
You lever yourself gently upwards with magic.
You float gently off the ground.
You feel light as air.

Help Information:

Finneblaugh's Thaumic Float - Hover gently in the air.

Finneblaugh's Thaumic Float is a miscellaneous spell that causes the caster to float several inches above the ground for the duration of the spell. The spell consumes a feather.

Notes:

This spell has been recently modified to make it what it now is (I'm adding this note on the 25th of July, 2010). In its previous version, it was much easier to cast, only had 3 stages (Air, Summoning and Air again) and it didn't consume the feather. Also, it was counted among the toy spells of the Begginer's grimoire, and not among its present air kin...
As it had a stage less, the output was slightly different. Line two was 'You drop a feather, watching it drift to the ground and force it to float back up into your hands' Present lines three and four didn't exist.