Originally Posted by
a70eliminator
So today I'm looking at 25mph winds gusting to 38, wind gust blew the plane right off its gear before I could even get it pointed in the right direction, had to pack it in for now just too windy.
Been there, most of us have. Just pointing your LT into the wind and holding full up elevator can be fun doing tight loops in one small spot. I have always had special planes built just for the wind. My Daddy Rabbit is an old {1966} pattern plane and it doesn't even know there is a wind. Gets blown back a bit in a big loop is about all. My Hots fun fly plane had the elevator slaved to the ailerons when in the flaperon mode and would come up as the ailerons were dropped. That plane would fly backwards under control. On a calm day and the mode was on it tended to want to stall on landing though so you had to watch it.