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TAR13 Episode Timeline, Route, Schedule
georgiapeach:
What about the 23rd?? Is there a way to find out which day those flights were cancelled??
Neobie:
Weather Underground lists the 23's weather as foggy from 2.35am to 4.00am, but the only non-stop flight going from Cordoba to Porto Alegre (that I could find), GOL 7469, touches down at 7.30am. Aerolineas Argentinas does a connection in Buenos Aires, but even then it arrives at 10.35am.
I'm not sure how airports operate with regard to fog. Do they turn away flights for much longer after bad weather has lifted? (GOL 7469 departs Cordoba at 5.35am, FWIW.)
Fog timings per Weather Underground
22nd: Nil
23rd: 2.35am to 4.00am
24th: 3.23am to 8.18am
25th: Nil
26th: 5.08am to 9.00am
Chateau d If:
Late again, I have to say the same thing as Neobie.... Weather Underground sorts it perfectly. Here is the info for April 24th. The flight the friends were on was Gol Transportes Aereos # 7469 from Cordoba COR to Porto Alegre POA. It took off at 5:35 am and was scheduled to arrive at Porto Alegre at 7:30 am. The weather info shows fog in Porto Alegre from 3:25 am to 8:18 am. the other days don't have fog for that landing time.
Mrs Shrek:
--- Quote from: Neobie on June 23, 2008, 11:14:50 PM ---I'm not sure how airports operate with regard to fog. Do they turn away flights for much longer after bad weather has lifted? (GOL 7469 departs Cordoba at 5.35am, FWIW.)
--- End quote ---
The usual practice I believe is that if the flight is already in the air when the landing airport is officially closed, then they are returned to the original airport, or redirected to an alternative airport (depends on length of flight, and amount of fuel on board among other things). If the landing airport is closed before the flight is due to take off, the plane often remains grounded until the landing airport reopens. In the case of this flight, if it was on the 23rd, the Porto Alegre airport would most likely have been reopened well before the departure of the flight, so I doubt it would have caused delays, where as on the 24th, as Chateau said it very definately would have caused delays, as the original flight may not have been cleared for departure until at least 8:30ish, around 3 hours late
apskip:
Peach said
--- Quote ---But what happens on April 29, for teams to arrive at night in Santiago on the 30th, tired and dirty? Phil's in Santa Cruz, but does this mean anything? A leg that goes from La Paz to Santa Cruz ending in a TBC, or something else completely?
If leg 4 is Auckland...then we have no more legs in SA, right?
1=departure to Salvador
2=Salvador to Fortaleza
3=Fortaleza to La Paz
But as per my previous post upstream about this--I really think they need them safely in Santiago well before that flight to Auckland so as not to risk them messing up the remainder of the timeline.
Is there any way we can have them actually DO something in Santiago??
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Now, let's address these questions one by one:
1. As things stand now, it is likely there was a TBC somewhere in South America. It could have been Fortaleza, but more likely was in Santiago or Santa Cruz after a pitstop in LaPaz.
2. No more legs in South America? Possible but not likely.
3. Need for teams to be in Santiago in advance of the evening of April 30 - yes, absolutely.
4. Is there anything teams can do in Santiago? For startes they could visit a conference room in a building filled with actors so they could figure out which mine in a painting is the correct one based on one character clues they get from the actors posing as businessmen. No, wait, that's the plot of AR11, episode 2. What they can do in AR13 is:
a, Visit Plaza de Armas
b. Visit Cerro San Cristobal, the highest point in Santiago
c. Visit any of 2 major art museums or one nationla museum
d. Moneda Palace
e. Bellavista bohemian area
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