RE: Judging to much wind?
heh, yeah, I have an orange Skyraider MII (now with black monokote tape) that got eaten one day by an unexpected crosswind gust on a landing. Winds were southwest, and I was about 5 feet above the runway when a due west gust flipped it over and flopped it on the pavement. It got rebuilt relatively easily.
I go to beech because I live at 29th and rock rd, so chapin is a bit of a drive, but worth it. Its more like my home field (CORCS in Norman, OK), where guys come out for the day, flyin planes and shootin the bull.
I discovered the other field out at chapin the last time I was out there when I had to recover what was left of my Phoenix Sukhoi.