Chuck - I was wondering if you call a Pan so as to enable you to do something that would otherwise be illegal?
Call a Pan?
Why would I call a Pan every time I landed with a X/wind that exceeded the demonstrated X/wind of the airplane?
If it is illegal then there are thousands of us flying for a living that do it because we had no other choice but to land.
Here is a question for you...
Many years ago we were hauling fuel with a DC3 in Canada's high Arctic the weather was perfect until our last trip.
Sixty miles out of Resolute (our destination ) the FSS called us and informed us that a sudden unforcasted wind had come up and Resolute was going below VFR limits in blowing snow.
By the time we were on final for the runway the FSS gave us another update.
Visibility zero in blowing snow and the wind was 50 knots 90 degrees to the runway.
It was dark and we could see the runway approach lights and the runway lights on final approach but only dimly in the blowing snow.
What should I have done with no alternate?
Declared a Pan?
WTF good would that nonsense have done me?
I landed it with the 50 knot X/wind and the sucker just slid straight down the runway. ( As I knew it would. )