Good on you. I enjoy some wind, but I gotta say 30 mph with gusts to 44 mph would ground me!

And, as you point out, a Stik is a good choice in wind - symmetrical airfoil, gobs of power (usually), plenty of control authority.

I have flown my Hot Stik (a low-wing Goldberg interpretation of the Stik) backwards on windy days and I love to do STOL touch-and-goes when it is down the runway. I can get airborne in a 10 foot roll out and land the same way. It can Harrier like nobody's business in 15 mph winds.

A bunch of us were out in 15 to 20 mph winds across the ruunway last week and a fellow with a Chinese Tiger II type clone followed me down but did not compensate for the crosswind. The wind got under his wing and flipped it while still a foot off the ground. The wing was OK but the fuselage was torn in two. Mind that upwind wingtip.

My instructor told me years ago "The model doesn't know the wind is blowing". That's true at times, but it WILL make things happen that must be compensated for. On windy days he'd take us up and make us do horizontal figure eights and critique us if they weren't even and symmetrical. Try it sometime!

Like a dead-stick while far downwind of the runway - avoid getting too far downwind.

Maneuvers you could get away with in any direction should be done into the wind - watched a guy do a perfect downwind figure "9" and smush a brand new Tiger Moth biplane.

Landings - use a little extra throttle.

Landings crosswind - keep some speed up and be ready with the rudder for corrections.

Watch the first downwind turn at low level. You'll suddenly loose lift and height, worse with some models than others, unless you feed rudder and keep the nose up.