Comment on "Landing when you're not sure what the wind is doing"
...do think their suggestion of expanding your awareness to the wind signs around you (smoke, trees, birds (land, stand, and take off into the wind), flags, ripples on water, etc) is ve...Comment on "So... despite having done careful fuel planning, have you ever found yourself arriving at your destination with a very uncomfortably low amount of fuel?"
...y will give you the exact wind speed / direction on the ground (not necessarily the same as wind at your altitude). Passing by ponds, trees, flags, smoke stacks, moored boats,...