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TAR16 - EP4: "We Are No Longer in the Bible Belt" (Germany)
Caelestor:
--- Quote from: Caelestor on March 07, 2010, 02:07:29 PM ---
To summarize my specs:
Flight to Frankfurt
Train to Hamburg
Intersection w/ Roadblock
Beer/Food Detour
Pit Stop
No FF.
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Flight to Frankfurt
Train to Hamburg
Intersection w/ Roadblock
Soccer/Food Detour
Beer task
Pit Stop (Beatles)
No FF. :tup:
apskip:
I felt compelled to figure out which flights teams actually took to arrive at the designated times of 235pm, 300pm and 340pm into Frankfurt airport. First of all, I cannot understand why World Race Productions forced all flights through Frankfurt. For flights through Heathrow or Charles de Gaulle going nonstop into Hamburg made much more sense. Also, the 1110 Austral Airlines flight out of Bariloche appears to me to be a fiction of somebody's imagination. No such flight appears to exist.
The first arriving flight combination had to be through Sao Paulo:
LA6469 1810 2050 EZE GRU
LH9829 2245 1440 GRU FRA This was reported to arrive at 1426, but stretching that to 1435 is within credibility.
The second one was:
LH511 2150 1500 EZE FRA (with an actual reported arrival of 1506)
The third is problematical, as there is nothing that fits perfectly. The closest is
AF417 1800 1100 EZE CDG
LH4219 1350 1510 CDG FRA (with an actual reported arrival of 1506)
I projected earlier and later flights but none of these, but I was projecting all the way to Hamburg, so that changed the connecting cities and arrival options.
Caelestor:
I think it may have been easier to go through customs at Frankfurt. That, or to delay the team's arrivals such that the leg would take place at night.
DeafRacer:
--- Quote from: redskevin88 on March 07, 2010, 06:39:14 PM ---
--- Quote from: b4us on March 07, 2010, 01:36:14 PM ---Better to have Jeff and Brent jump, and Jordan and Caite navigate, and thus overcome their fears -- this is the amazing race afterall!
--- End quote ---
And let two girls make their own way in the dark at night in one of Europe's seediest neighborhood? No way Jose!
--- End quote ---
Producers always made sure the places are safe! Plus they got a cameraman and a sound man with them so they're fine!
apskip:
--- Quote from: Caelestor on March 08, 2010, 11:08:01 AM ---I think it may have been easier to go through customs at Frankfurt. That, or to delay the team's arrivals such that the leg would take place at night.
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I doubt that customs would be the reason. There are a myriad of flights arriving into Europe everyday and it would be totally inefficient to route all German flights through Frankfurt (and presumably also Munich, Dusseldorf and Berlin) before connecting to other German cities.
Caelestor, I think you have nailed it with the "leg would at night" proposition. The bungee would have attracted great attention if visible in daylight. There are many fewer prying eyes that could have spotted this task in action and reported it to the world. I don't think it mattered if the soccer stadium, sauerkraut restaurant, beer pub or club were at night or in daylight, but the bungee would be a big deal.
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