Playin’ with fire. Why go? The weather will be crap.
Last time I took a flight near / around a typhoon I woke up to see my book flying 3’ over my head. Just enough time to cover my nuts before impact.
Interesting.
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Can’t find anything on it, but I recall reading it in the papers at the time. From memory the guy was a meteorologist and had been tracking the typhoon for sometime. He was apparently aghast that the airline wanted to take off.
[quote]Playin’ with fire. Why go? The weather will be crap.
Last time I took a flight near / around a typhoon I woke up to see my book flying 3’ over my head. Just enough time to cover my nuts before impact.[/quote]
Can’t be helped, going back for a friend’s wedding, erh, the bride at which lost her mother on that CAL flight over Penghu . . . Oh dear. Christ I can’t tell them the missus is coming in on China Airlines!
Someone just showed me an online Taiwan paper which suggested the frigging phoon warning is likely midday tomorrow. I thought it was heading in on Sunday!
HG
Well, the sea warnings begin before the land warnings, so it might be something like that. The 35-knot wind radii reach Taipei around 10am local time Saturday AFAIK. A Friday evening flight should probably be ok.
…and they will probably start announcing work cancellations for Saturday on Friday afternoon.
Remember the sites for work cancellation notices:
Official Chinese Version: typhoon.cpa.gov.tw/
Unofficial English Version: vps1.jameslick.com/cpa/
you got bigger cajones then I do. I would just cancel the flights period. typhoons are not to be messed with.
And the worse thing is that the airports wait till the very last minute to close down. Obviously if CKS and Chep Lap Kok and Kaitak had been prudent and shut down (even if winds are still below the point where by law they must shut down) earlier those 3 accidents would not have occurred. Laws need to be amended regarding airport closure due to storms. They should err on the side of safety.
But that being said. If they fly chances are more then 99.999999 pct you would all be fine !! So if you must go on those days, dont fret too much . I have done it many a times. And my ex GF who was a stew with Cathay used to fly into Kaitak when everyone else had abandoned the approach. But good ol Cathay tries up to three times to land before they would give it up.
she was NEVER worried (even if I was ). There were many times I took her to the CKS airport right before a storm or right after and I sometimes thought if that was the last time I would see her.
But the facts are that 99.9999999999999 pct of the time you would be fine !!
so avoid if you guys can, if not, no need to be unduly worried. There is actually more risk driving out and from the airport in a car then the flight !!
Great, my flight is around 2pm Sat.
All very well, but most people flying aren’t doing it to pass the time or anything. Connecting flights in other places, and all that.
This far out it’s hard to know when it will hit exactly, and it’s best to see how it goes on the day. At least it’s a take off and not a landing (sorry HGC).
Nurse, you’re flying in tomorrow morning, right? It’ll be no problem. And you REALLY don’t want to miss the Ramblers.
My reading of the current JTWC forecast puts Taipei right at the 42-knot-wind radii at that point.
(= 78.2kph) (The wind fields at forecast.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/shadow/ are consistent with that, giving speeds of 34-63kts, 39-73mph, and 63-118kph.) Those are “1 Minute Maximum Sustained Winds” and not gusts.
What’s the max safe windspeed for takeoffs?
My reading of the current JTWC forecast puts Taipei right at the 42-knot-wind radii at that point.
(= 78.2kph) (The wind fields at forecast.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/shadow/ are consistent with that, giving speeds of 34-63kts, 39-73mph, and 63-118kph.) Those are “1 Minute Maximum Sustained Winds” and not gusts.
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in which case the CKS will be closed. because that will definitely exceed max wind allowed
got a visitor whom’s flight to Korea is at on Sat 2PM and a colleague flying to Tokyo on Sat 10 AM. And both would like to know if they will be grounded…
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in which case the CKS will be closed. because that will definitely exceed max wind allowed[/quote]
Correction … TTI … not CKS anymore
Purty eye! 
So what’s the latest except that it looks pretty and is coming? Should I stock up on durian and watermelon like last time?
Wow man…the colors…like I can really see an eye in that…its like…moving man…far out…
(where are those flashbacks they promised?)
I dunno about you, but I see a foetus with a hole in it’s head. Man that’s some heavy shit right there! What’s it called, Damian, or sumfink?
HG
It’s NUTTY here in Xindian. Very very heavy rains…came home to a MESSY house.(4 dogs and a cat who don’t like to go outside in the rain) yuckkk
Yep… I guess Athula aint open tonight 
Apparently it is slowing down and gaining strength.
“That’s not good”, said Captain Obvious.
In Sanxia it’s raining cats and dogs … or something similar
I wisely decided to do my weekend beer run this evening rather than wait for tomorrow! But dang, another weekend typhoon, why do most of them wait until I have time off before coming around?