kase,
Exactly. My guess is you'll never get an airport manager or anyone in FAA to tell you its okay to land across a runway, alongside a runway, or anywhere on an airport that there isn't a white line.
Most of the cases where this happens without issues occur in places with no operating control tower, and nobody asks, nobody tells. Where there's an operating control tower, and you tell them (don't ask) you're going to use a taxiway, or ??? for safety's sake, as long as you don't break anything, I doubt ANY controller would ever file a report on you.
Get it down safe, that's the key.
Now, one thing I find interesting so far in this thread is that nobody has even mentioned the notion that SOMETIMES the best plan is to simply go somewhere else, where the wind isnt' so strong or so much of a crosswind.
One problem I see with some pilots is that they get so focused on landing at THAT airport, they totally miss the notion of going somewhere else, including a true off airport site.
Just some other ideas, but if you go to management beforehand looking for permission to use the ramp area for a landing, I can pretty much tell you what the "official" answer will be.
I recall years ago, at Cold Bay, Christmas Eve, a very well known pilot who lived further up the Peninsula had been in CDB for days working hard to reduce the backlog of bush mail. On Christmas Eve, the wind was absolutely howling across the runway at CDB, but right down the runway at his place. He lined the Widgeon up into the wind on the ramp in front of Flight Service, called the FSS folks, and asked them to look north for a few minutes (as in away from the ramp). After his takeoff over the FSS building, he wished them a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
We called later that evening to make sure he got home okay.
Do what you have to do, but do it intelligently. And its easier to ask forgiveness after the fact than for permission before. Assuming it all works out, of course.
MTV