The only way to learn to fly in the wind is get out there and do it! Now don't start with your $1800 plane, but throw a SPA3D together out of coroplast and aluminum and go have a ball! If it ain't blowin 20 mph, it's too calm!! Great harriers, and you WILL learn to fly rudder. It amazes me how many guys can't land straight down the runway with a steady 15 mph cross wind. They just don't know how to use the left stick. We've had lousy flying weather this year in Tennessee. I bet we haven't had 3 or 4 days of flying since March with the winds less than 15 mph. You either learn to fly in it, or you don't fly.