RE: Flying when windy question
As my instructor said, "if you can fly in the wind, you can fly when there is none. And, if you can't fly in the wind, you won't be flying very much. Lets just go fly."
Now there were times it was a bit too much wind to fly in, but even the days with what some would call too much wind, we still flew. The extra wind just teaches you to know how to correct the flight characteristics.