People's total lack of understanding of lightning and electricity is always hilarious. Birdmen in the air have a lower conductivity than air itself, whether or not they have any metal on their body. Lightning is more likely to take the path through air than a high resistance humanoid body. A knight in a suit of plate mail is the safest person of all encased in metal armor. This is due to Gausses Law, which isn't just a Good Idea... During a lightning storm the safest place to be is either in your automobile, as long as it isn't plastic, or in your ceramic coated metal bathtub... LOL!!
