We have the record wind speed recorded by doppler at like 318mph, and some say it topped 360 at one point during the famous May 3 '99 tornado. Not relevant, but I thought I would throw it in.

I have found that wind feels faster than it actually is. I think the max I have flown in was 25, and its a lot of fun with a capable plane. My tt 46 Mach 2 loves the wind and stationary rolls, vertical drifts, level hovering can be done easily in winds like that. It's a totally new experience.

I really want to learn to fly in the wind, so Iam kind of disapointed at the forecast for this weekend.

Bright, Sunny no chance of rain,High in the mid 80s, and forecast calls for max 5 mph winds both days. Spend all day Saturdaywith my lovely wife and friends out on my boat, and Sunday after church at the flying field.

I guessI will just have to suffer through another boring weekend in the deep south. What a Pitty. </p>

Just come to fly in Florida, Flying Beagle!

I wish we had MIN 5 mph winds here. [sm=drowning.gif][sm=bananahead.gif]

I once flew my Avistar and Magnum .46 when it was so windy the plane would not sit on the ground without rolling backwards or turning over unless the engine was running at a good fast idle. Don't know the exact wind speed but all the flags in the area were straight out, so I'm sure it was at least 25mph. Only way I could take off was to hold the plane by the tail to keep it  pointed into the wind while throttling up to take off.  Took off in about 2 feet and had no trouble flying and doing any manuevers I wanted to.
 However, landing was pretty intense and after getting lucky a couple times, I lost my nerve for landing on pavement.  I started coming in steep about 1/3 throttle, leveled off, cut throttle, made it stall about 4 feet high, and plopped down in waist high grass rather than risk smacking the pavement. Did this several times that day. 

Another day the wind was about  half as fast but more gusty and my Venus ended up in  pieces.  

the 35 mph day I was at the airport, the weather station 100 yards away and were dialing it on my cell phone, faa run atis station.

the 60 mph day was a schedualed slope souring event for our club and there were at least 5 roto wind meters on site all reading 55-61mph. yea I know there a lot of bull s#$%ers on this site, this is no bull