I posted the following back at #147. Flying helicopters in the offshore world it was not uncommon to have 60 knots of wind when taking off from a platform. Climb speed in our particular aircraft was 75 knots and the turn to downwind while holding climb speed was visually spectacular if not seen previously. Ground speed went from 15 knots into wind to 135 knots downwind, all the while maintaining 75 knots IAS. The point is, the aircraft doesn't care what the wind is, and if you are flying by reference to instruments you would have no idea what the strength of the wind is, or indeed, if there is any wind, save for the fact that you already have 60 knots airspeed prior to commencement of the take off.
It was said
that in sports mode you could make the turn at 60° of bank for a really spectacular visual illusion. The airspeed didn't move, and the ball remained centred. How can all this be? Where were all these inertial effects? Why didn't we crash and burn?