so ive been flying for about 8 months now and i feel pretty solid in calm conditions, can do smooth orbits, split S entries, the usual stuff you practice in a field. but lately ive been going out on windier days on purpose to try to build that skill and im noticing something weird happening with my yaw when a gust comes through.

basically im flying a cinematic line, wind is maybe 12-15mph with occasional gusts up into the 20s, and when a gust hits the nose kind of gets pushed sideways and i overcorrect with the stick and then im fighting it for like 3-4 seconds before i settle back down. its not a drone problem i think, more just my inputs being sloppy under pressure. anyone else go through this phase and what actually helped you get past it.

im on a mavic 3 if that matters, not trying to get into fpv or anything, just want to be able to shoot in real conditions without every windy clip looking like garbage

yeah man this is basically the thing every pilot goes through around that 6-12 month mark when they start pushing into real conditions. the overcorrection thing is almost always about where your eyes are ? if youre watching the drone instead of the screen you tend to react a beat late and then jam the stick. try to make yourself commit to just the video feed when wind picks up, it forces you to respond to what you actually see happening in frame rather than your gut instinct about the drone moving.

also and this sounds dumb but just doing hover practice in wind helped me more than anything. like park it at 30 feet and try to keep it dead still while you watch the sticks. you start to feel the anticipation thing, little inputs before the nose moves rather than after. takes a while but it becomes automatic eventually

I went through this exact thing last spring. What helped me was dropping my expo settings a little so the yaw channel wasnt so twitchy ? I think I was also just overcooking the stick travel for small corrections. On the Mavic 3 you can tune that in the RC settings pretty easily. Didnt solve it totally but made the overcorrection phase shorter while i was building the muscle memory.