[RKDinOKC]

Used to really like flying my RC plane on windy days. It had flaperons. Put a servo on each aileron and the computer could operate them as flaps as well as ailerons. On windy days I could taxi around with reverse flaps keeping the plane stuck to the ground. Turn the reverse flaps off and up it would fly. If there was enough wind could do takeoffs and landings traveling backwards relative to the ground.

Thought it was funny. The old farts at the flying field would tell me it was crazy using falperons, just more to go wrong and cause crashes. Then a few months later they would get one of the newer computerized radios, setup a plane with flaperons then talk about how fun they were.

It was a good flying field. The wind was almost always parallel to the runway. It wasn't uncommon on a day with wind between 20 and 25 miles and hour for the flying filed to be pack with people flying their R/C planes.

Went to see what was going on RC wise in Atlanta when visiting my Bro. It was a beautiful Saturday morning with almost no wind. Went to the nearby flying field. There were only 3 people there flying. Our filed would have been packed with 25 or 30 fliers. After about an hour with wind picked up to around 8mph. They all packed up and went home because it got too windy. If those guys flew in Oklahoma City, they would almost never get to fly.

I understand the pattern competitions where they have to fly precision loops and rolls etc graded on accuracy are only cancelled due to wind if the wind gets over 40mph. I can't even imagine flying what looks like a perfectly round loop from the ground in a 30mph wind.