ORIGINAL: jimmyjames213
when the plane can no longer move forward at full throttle your flying in to much wind, everything else is fair game. I've found flying in 30 mph winds to be somewhat entertaining, not something I would want to do every day but theirs something about flying a plane backwards that makes it worth the effort
As long as it is a steady wind, the no go limit is as stated when the plane do not advance over the ground flying at full throttle into the wind.
If there is turbulence, it's no flying when the plane just get thrown around.
Then there is the consideration about ground handling of the aeroplane.
The slope soaring pilots will fly in more or less anything as long as they don't get blown of the slope themself.
(Wearing ski masks and with short TX antennas, the wind do break ordinary TX antennas. The planes are heavy and fast, landings are one point only.)