so ive been flying for about a year now mostly in calm conditions and i feel pretty solid in those. but anytime there's more than like 10-12mph wind i get really sketchy and start making dumb inputs. i know the obvious answer is just fly in wind more but i feel like im not actually learning anything useful, just white-knuckling it until i land safely and calling it a day.

is there like a structured way to build wind tolerance or is it really just accumulated hours? i fly a 5inch freestyle build mostly and sometimes my cinewhoop when i want smoother stuff. feels completely different in wind between the two obviously. the cinewhoop is basically a kite at anything over 8mph lol

any drills or approaches that actually helped you guys get comfortable? or am i overthinking it and should just go fly in wind more

honestly the thing that helped me most was picking one specific maneuver and just doing it over and over in wind instead of trying to free fly. like i'd go out and just do figure eights around two trees or whatever and make myself hold the same line regardless of what the wind was doing. your brain starts learning to anticipate the drift instead of just reacting to it, which is the whole game really. reactive correction in wind is always late correction.

also worth noting that flying INTO the wind on approach to anything is way easier for maintaining control than having it push you from behind. sounds obvious but i used to do the opposite instinctively and wonder why everything felt out of control on the second half of every pass

the cinewhoop in wind thing is so real, mine turns into a nightmare past like 6-7mph, i just accept it at this point. for the 5inch though i started doing hover drills in wind which sounds boring but it actually helped a lot ? just picking a point and trying to hold position manually without gps. forces you to make constant tiny corrections and after a while it stops feeling like a crisis every time a gust hits