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  "id": 3317,
  "title": "Actual values for departure",
  "url": "/competitions/flight/discussion/3317",
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  "post_date": "2012-12-13T03:30:10.757Z",
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  "content": "<p>Hi,<br>\r\n<br>\r\nIn the Initial Training Set, the flighthistory.csv file has the following fields:\r\n<em>actual_gate_departure, actual_gate_arrival, actual_runway_departure and actual_runway_arrival</em><br>\r\n<br>\r\nI guess that in the Public Leaderboard Set, the fields <em>actual_gate_arrival and actual_runway_arrival</em> will of course not be available but it is not as clear concerning\r\n<em>actual_gate_departure and actual_runway_departure</em> ...<br>\r\n<br>\r\nCould you please clarify?</p>",
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      "id": "17764",
      "postDate": "12/13/2012 03:30:10",
      "content": "<p>Hi,<br>\r\n<br>\r\nIn the Initial Training Set, the flighthistory.csv file has the following fields:\r\n<em>actual_gate_departure, actual_gate_arrival, actual_runway_departure and actual_runway_arrival</em><br>\r\n<br>\r\nI guess that in the Public Leaderboard Set, the fields <em>actual_gate_arrival and actual_runway_arrival</em> will of course not be available but it is not as clear concerning\r\n<em>actual_gate_departure and actual_runway_departure</em> ...<br>\r\n<br>\r\nCould you please clarify?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "17771",
      "postDate": "12/13/2012 06:37:30",
      "content": "<p>I believe <em>actual_gate_departure</em> and <em>actual_runway_departure</em> will be available if the flight has taken off already in the randomized timeslice, otherwise not.&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": "17801",
      "postDate": "12/13/2012 19:28:17",
      "content": "<p>Refer to the sample test set to see the format for the test files &amp; the fields that will be available.</p>\r\n<p>actual_gate_departure and actual_runway_departure will both be available</p>",
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    {
      "id": "19099",
      "postDate": "01/08/2013 17:50:56",
      "content": "<p>There are a number of flights which have actual_runway_departure &lt;&nbsp;actual_gate_departure. Example in 2012_11_15:</p>\r\n<p>id=280455643 actual_gate_departure=11/15 15:58:00 actual_runway_departure=11/15 12:35:00</p>\r\n<p>It's difficult to predict arrival for a flight if we don't know when it took off.</p>\r\n<p>What should we do with these flights?</p>",
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      "id": "19109",
      "postDate": "01/08/2013 19:39:58",
      "content": "<p>[quote=El Loco;19099]</p>\r\n<p>There are a number of flights which have actual_runway_departure &lt;&nbsp;actual_gate_departure. Example in 2012_11_15:</p>\r\n<p>id=280455643 actual_gate_departure=11/15 15:58:00 actual_runway_departure=11/15 12:35:00</p>\r\n<p>It's difficult to predict arrival for a flight if we don't know when it took off.</p>\r\n<p>What should we do with these flights?</p>\r\n<p>[/quote]We're not asking you to make predictions for flights that have actual_runway_departure&lt;actual_gate_departure. These have been filtered from the test flights in the public_leaderboard_data.</p>",
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      "id": 17771,
      "author_name": "braddv",
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      "post_date": "12/13/2012 06:37:30",
      "content": "<p>I believe <em>actual_gate_departure</em> and <em>actual_runway_departure</em> will be available if the flight has taken off already in the randomized timeslice, otherwise not.&nbsp;</p>",
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    {
      "id": 17801,
      "author_name": "benhamner",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/13/2012 19:28:17",
      "content": "<p>Refer to the sample test set to see the format for the test files &amp; the fields that will be available.</p>\r\n<p>actual_gate_departure and actual_runway_departure will both be available</p>",
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    {
      "id": 19099,
      "author_name": "elloco",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "01/08/2013 17:50:56",
      "content": "<p>There are a number of flights which have actual_runway_departure &lt;&nbsp;actual_gate_departure. Example in 2012_11_15:</p>\r\n<p>id=280455643 actual_gate_departure=11/15 15:58:00 actual_runway_departure=11/15 12:35:00</p>\r\n<p>It's difficult to predict arrival for a flight if we don't know when it took off.</p>\r\n<p>What should we do with these flights?</p>",
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    {
      "id": 19109,
      "author_name": "benhamner",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "01/08/2013 19:39:58",
      "content": "<p>[quote=El Loco;19099]</p>\r\n<p>There are a number of flights which have actual_runway_departure &lt;&nbsp;actual_gate_departure. Example in 2012_11_15:</p>\r\n<p>id=280455643 actual_gate_departure=11/15 15:58:00 actual_runway_departure=11/15 12:35:00</p>\r\n<p>It's difficult to predict arrival for a flight if we don't know when it took off.</p>\r\n<p>What should we do with these flights?</p>\r\n<p>[/quote]We're not asking you to make predictions for flights that have actual_runway_departure&lt;actual_gate_departure. These have been filtered from the test flights in the public_leaderboard_data.</p>",
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