Some years ago I had a series of dreams in which I flew a single-engined single-seat airplane (a la WW2 fighter) in a hands-on fashion with tactile feedback from the stick and pedals. I've never flown a plane, nor been trained hands-on - not even in a simulator.
In the dreams I took off, banked, turned, located a destination airfield, and landed safely - all the while engaging the controls and actively managing my actions. There was no panic and no loss of control.
I found the experience laborious but quite pleasant, and I repeated it in other dreams for a while thereafter - sometimes deciding to fly 'my' plane when needing to 'travel'.
I have a theory about such vehicles in dreams.
I believe it is possible for deep dreamers to create a mode of transport to facilitate faster transition through the "land of dreams".
The creation of such a vehicle happens over many dreams, the dreamer perfecting it as they go.
They seem connected to flight, in that the dreamer is levitating/gliding/flying.
I believe that with practice the vehicle can be done away with entirely, becoming a power instead.
For me, it began many years ago in a dream where I was sat on a tall, four legged, round seated, wooden bar stool.
I learned that if I leaned forwards on my stool, it would move slowly forward, scraping along on two legs as I maintained balance.
With some practice I was able to travel around like that, sat on the stool and leaning forward, able to increase and decrease speed and turn etc.
Then the stool appeared in another dream and I used it as a mode of transport and learned that I could stop the scraping sound that the two legs made by concentrating and levitating me and the stool off the ground slightly. This allowed for much higher speed and no sound.
A while after, I was stool-travelling in another dream when I realised I didn't need the stool at all, I could lean forward whilst concentrating and I would slide forwards whilst slightly levitating, rather like air-skis. I could crouch down and lean forward with my feet close together and travel at speed anywhere I chose, before long I could do acrobatics also.
Air-skating is something that takes concentration to do, at times when my concentration wanes I feel/hear my shoes/socks/barefeet scraping the ground/wall/ceiling/surface and I slow down slightly. Loss of concentration can lead to a full stop and I have to walk/run/swim normally.
I've spent 20 or so years air-skating in my dreams, at times actually flying higher than a few inches (excluding stunts).
It goes without saying that I have never skied or skated, but I have flown a 737-simulator, a balloon, a glider and a helicopter (as well as being a passenger on many larger planes).