ok so i've been flying fpv for about 8 months now, mostly freestyle on a 5 inch, and i decided i need to actually get good at recovering from prop wash instead of just avoiding situations where it happens. been doing dive pull-up sequences in the sim for a couple weeks and then taking it outside to practice for real.

the sim does not prepare you for how bad it actually feels in real life when the quad starts to tumble. in liftoff it just feels kind of floaty but when it actually happens outdoors on my real quad it is so much more violent and the window to correct is like nothing. i keep either over-correcting or just freezing up.

anyone have a method they actually used to build this muscle memory or is it just thousands of repetitions until it clicks. feels like im regressing some days

yeah the sim gap is real for prop wash stuff. what helped me was doing it at altitude first, like way more altitude than you think you need, so you have time to actually feel whats happening before you run out of sky. once i got the feel for the correction timing i slowly started doing it lower. also tuning matters a lot here ? if your PIDs are garbage or your filters are too aggressive you're fighting the tune on top of the actual recovery which makes it so much harder to learn the movement itself.

took me probably six months of regular flying before prop wash recovery started feeling natural and even then i still blow it sometimes. dont get discouraged by the regression days, thats just how motor skills work. the freezing up thing is very normal early on, your brain is trying to process too much at once. it does eventually become more reflex than thought but you cant rush it really