Like the post title says, Wind is your friend. If you don't learn how to fly in it you don't fly much. On the other hand, Turbulence is your enemy. Our local field is small and tight. We overfly a swamp that's surrounded with trees. The only break in the tree line is behind our runway and we've generally got a 90 degree crosswind into or out of the swamp if the wind's blowing. Had a 30 inch electric up one day in 10-15, made a straight and level full power pass right down the runway at about 10 feet. As soon as the plane got into the opening in the tree line it dropped 10 feet and pancaked right on the centerline. Had my Sledge up Saturday and the crosswind started kicking up. Put it up and the wind got nastier, flew it around for a while and got to the point where I was spending all of my time just trying to keep the plane airborne. Decided I wasn't having a lot of fun so I decided to land. Set up a nice approach on a 45 to keep it out of the rollers coming off the top of the trees. Soon as the plane got into the break in the tree line it made an immediate left and put itself 4 foot up in a bush, didn't hurt anything, but I figured that was enough (new 3D move, Perching). When we do get a decent wind that's down the runway it actually makes our postage stamp a lot easier to land on, but those days are few and far between. I've been there when the wind was only 5 or 6 and the turbulence over the swamp makes anything down low almost impossible, other times it's 10 to 15 but smooth as glass.

Turbulence sucks (literally)

Mike