red head,
You may catch a rash for this post, but you are completely right. Since I'm here in Oklahoma (the song was right. The wind really does come sweeping down the plains) flying in wind is something you have to learn. Luckily when I'm teaching students we don't have to wait for wind, it's an all the time thing. I see on here that some places consider 15 mph too much wind. That's a normal day for us. So my students always learn to fly in the wind. What's funny is watching some newer fliers at our field on the rare days that there is NO wind. It's so funny watching them. No matter how hard they try they always overshoot the runway without the wind to slow them down.

Ken