BTIZ wrote:

Hint... go back to the 2000fpm up... get high enough to go over the rotor..
move east away from the rotor to find sinking air.. and come back in to the
airport.. don't fly through rotor..

Or, in other words: Learn to fly with the weather, not despite it.

Another hint.. get a glider rating.. add-on check ride counts as a BFR, and
learn what the glider pilots know about the MindenWave..

Be careful with this, though. Chances are that you'll get hooked and
will never sit in that Cessna again.

Stefan