Originally Posted by OC619
Take a 40kt wind.... While you might get the aircraft down on the ground and stopped in one piece you may find you are sitting there with the tail up - lower it and you fly (although you have 0kts ground speed you do have 40kts airspeed).
Great for touch and goes, though; you don't have to do a circuit in between.
As a low-houred coward (yellow streak so wide I don't need a hi-vis jacket) I work on the if there's any doubt there's no doubt principle.