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TAR15 EP7:"This is Not My Finest Hour" (The Netherlands)
puddin:
They probably edited it out? for shame! unless Phil shows it to us at the beginning of the next leg? Maybe they start there?
georgiapeach:
Was there anything helpful in the special thanks section of the credits??
puddin:
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on November 02, 2009, 12:28:56 AM ---Was there anything helpful in the special thanks section of the credits??
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Cocoa:
--- Quote from: puddin on November 01, 2009, 11:32:02 AM ---
--- Quote from: uycocoa on November 01, 2009, 08:24:48 AM ---**MAY/MAY NOT BE RELATED QUESTION:**
About TAR 15 Leg 7: I just learned that there is a sort of "time-change" there, and Im sure time here will be changed too, since we are "live via satellite". What time does it start there?
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Studio 23 schedule 08:00 am The Amazing Race 15 << whats your time changed to?
- Current Time in Singapore 1:31am Monday (SGT)
- My current time 12:31 pm Eastern
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TAR here was shown at 9 AM. I see, we are now 13 hours ahead.
apskip:
This is a strange episode for backtracking on the airline flights. The first thing to establish is what the pit stop duration was. That is quite hard to estimate. I am starting with the projected checkin times from my guesstimation of them early this past week. To that I have to add a fudge factor to each one to get a uniform result. Those fudge factors are:
Cheyne/Meghan (this one from 1213pm, not my own estimate of 1102) 25 hours 0 minutes
Maria/Tiffany from 137pm 25 hours 32 minutes
Sam/Dan from 139pm 25 hours 31 minutes
Brian/Ericka from 144pm 25 hours 36 minutes
Gary/Matt from 145pm 25 hours 49 minutes
Nate/Herb from 420pm 25 hours 48 minutes
So, I conclude that uniform result is a 25 hour pit stop. If it were 24 hours, the fudge factors would be too high, indicating that an hour to an hour 48 minutes has to be added to my original estimates. If it were 26 hours, then the fudge factor for all would negative, which is highly unlikely since my original guesstimes were conservative.
What can I next conclude? I cannot understand how Meghan/Cheyne would miss a connecting flights to Amsterdam that weas well after 113pm (to allow them to get to the airport and book it) and on or before 305pm:
EK121 DXB IST 1500 1755, connecting Istanbul with TK1955 IST AMS 2007 2251
Note that none of the other 5 teams have a chance at this flight. So, how did WRP force all teams onto the same flight for Bunching? I don't know, but I have three hypotheses:
1. That the clue specified the use of KLM airline
2. that the clue specified use of only a nonstop flight, which is equivalent to specifying KLM as they have the only ones
3. unlinkely, but maybe this flight combination was full for July 30, forcing Cheyne/Meghan to get the next best arrival time, KL428 on July 31.
There were several flights before a huge 6 3/4 hour gap in connections to reach Amsterdam (Dubai from 550pm to 1040pm).
There were several flights that connected through Bahrain leaving Dubai at 2pm through 1145pm but they all arrive AMS at 610am, well after KL428.
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