Learn-learn-learn to fly in the wind. Once the apprehension wears off, flying in the wind is tremendous fun -- you can do quasi-3D stuff in a trainer -- right in your face. Buy or build a SPAD (but with balsa ailerons for sharper response), or get some other cheap, semi-indestructible model & practice till the cows come home. If you don't learn, you will be sitting on the ground watching other guys having fun.