I recently acquired my normal flying mount in outlands, and have found it much easier to farm ore to sell on the AH and increase my jewelcrafting, however I'm not sure on the best method to go about flying through the zones to find the stuff. I've got gatherer installed to track the nodes myself, friends and guildmates find, and I use wowhead open on another PC to show me the location of minerals and fly around.
I tend to do a zig-zag pattern around the zone (start at one spot, say upper-left corner, fly to upper-right, and move down in a sort of S or Z pattern through the map. This nets me quite a bunch of ore provided theres little or no one else in the zone farming as well. I can spend a few hours and almost fill my 20 slot mining bag with ore and stones, and net quite a few gems and motes as well.
Occasionally I end up fighting the random mob or horde player (I'm on a pvp server) but that only slows me down a bit and never really is an issue.
I'd like to hear what everyone who has a flying mount does to farm their minerals/herbs/etc.
Thanks in advance!