anyone with wand skill can easily drop anyone who is flying.
edit : drop as in get them on the ground so they can be tripped.
Goliath?
I think I know why you thought I could be tripped, you used air thrash, which does work against mounted paladins, it knocks them off the horse just like if they were flying.
No...I was referring to you fighting Morchial.
Strange i never recall getting lagged when fighting Morchial.
And that is what i was refering. It is quite unfair that Monks and caster of Hurricane can allow Paladins to be triped.
In fact i think monks tone up was quite powerfull. I do not recall my monk being able to L3 bolt protective shield while fighting. I recall that i always fleed to land the bolt.
But if you want to talk about unfair. "Corruption" is the real pain. I hate when those Forsaken Lands mobs things do this. I mean an Area Attack of 200 damage and Blasphemy.... I swear that that place is cursed at night.
The only thing worse i could think of would be to have someone cast curse you without you getting a saves check-roll. 
Monks could always bolt in combat, no matter what level chii. And monks could always thrash/trip a mounted pally.
And you are right, the monk tone was powerful, but you also have to realize playing a monk takes a LOT of finesse. It took me...I think three monks before Atsul before I actually got the hang of it, and Atsul still got waxed all the time.