Many of those other threads have incorporated factors such as wind direction and speed in the responses or the OP. At least the more helpful ones have. I have not disagreed with anything anyone has posted.
I feel that far too many humans see things such as environmental conditions as an afterthought. Canines do not see it this way. Things like wind direction and speed, lighting, backgrounds etc can be of paramount importance on any given mark or blind. I believe that obvious factors (to us) such as angled entries and cover changes can sometimes be the trees that prevent trainers from seeing the forest from the dogs perspective. Things such as wind speed and direction (just as obvious to our dogs) would be so easy to include in these kind of hypothetical training "exercises" but they are frequently left out. They are also too often left out of trainers thinking when attempting to train, or test, a dog.
My point is that these factors are far more important than a lot of trainers realize and considering them when designing, setting up and executing setups is too often neglected. I do not feel I can, or should, do a productive set up without this information and I comment to only to help others realize how important it really is. Routinely incorporating this information into our suggested setups can help people learn to train more effectively by training them to consider these things in their training.
So my question to you is that if you feel you can design a quality setup with no regard to wind direction and speed, lighting, background and other environment factors, why comment at all? If you dont agree, so be it.
Wind is not an afterthought regards,
Clark Emery