Groan,,
I can hear myself talking in some of your posts. it is true that the airplane is not aware of the wind, although wind shear is alltogether a different story. last time I flew it was blowing a bit, and my stick-ish plane made a very helicoptor like landing. When the tin is starting to peel off of my outbuildings, it's time to go home and it truly has been like that here for quite some time now.

I remember making a landing in a cessna skylane one time (full scale) with a direct crosswind blowing left to right at very near 45 mph. I was concentrating on my heading and remember taking a look to my left and seeing just a few inches between the wing tip and the runway. I have since reminded myself that might not have been the smartest thing I ever did. Please don't look in the manual for the highest demonstated cross wind in a C 182 as I well exceeded it that day. Some days we are lucky.

Glancing down at my signature, hmmmm