Changes?
Hey, does anyone know if anything special will be done to the force over the winter to enhance our ride pleasure? if so, tell!
Well, it they do do anything to it, hopfully it doesn't have anything to do with brakes.;)
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~Eric L.~
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~Eric L.~
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I kind of wish they had a way to brake it where the interval could be quicker, but I don't see it being possible ,the high lift speed kind of makes it not able to run in the same manner as say magnum anyway
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I think there should be a midcourse brake somewhere on it where it still wouldn't lose speed throughout the ride. On top of the 3rd 182-foot hill would be a perfect place, but I'm not sure it this is actually close to the end of the first half of the ride. (I'm saying 3rd hill because it sometimes creeps over it and barely makes it over so if it was stopped on top, then let down it, I'm pretty sure it could easily make it back to the station) MF's ride time is about 1 minute 45 seconds, so this means they can only dispatch a train about every 1 minute 15 seconds(I'm guessing on this, not entirely sure how short the dispatch time is). It takes about 20 seconds to get over the lift but this can be slowed down (most of us have noticed the change in speed when going up the lift). So I'm giving it 25 seconds on the lift and about 25 seconds in the brakes before it can be dispatched.
When standing in line I've always noticed that as a train hits the brake run, the next train is only about 1/6 up the lift hill (if that). I hope this explains well where I got all of my timing from, remember this all estimated so I'm not completely sure on all of this.
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When standing in line I've always noticed that as a train hits the brake run, the next train is only about 1/6 up the lift hill (if that). I hope this explains well where I got all of my timing from, remember this all estimated so I'm not completely sure on all of this.
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Exactly. There is no place to put a mid-course without redesigning the entire ride, and even if you could, it wouldn't increase capacity without another train. There are already four blocks: Lift, course and break run, unload and load. (I would add that technically, according to People Who Know(TM), there are actually several sets of "mini-blocks" through the entire distance from the brakes to the lift, so that the trains can be simultaneously moved through them.)
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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
Millennium Force laps: 50
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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
Millennium Force laps: 50
and , as a note, that increase in speed near the top of lift is the when the first set of brakes(or breaks to some of you)that actually bring the incoming train to a complete stop are clear,in other words, they know that nothing can go wrong as far as a train sitting in the only place to STOP a train.
no train will crest the lift hill without the brakes that will stop it at the end being empty!
does anyone know of a website with details of blocking for these people that don't understand it?
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no train will crest the lift hill without the brakes that will stop it at the end being empty!
does anyone know of a website with details of blocking for these people that don't understand it?
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I know there isn't a place to put a mid course brake without it being redesigned (that is kind of obvious), the point I was trying to make is that I thought it would increase capacity if it had one. I understand how coasters are set in blocks. I thought the blocks were the circuit, the lift, and the brakes. I figured a train was in unload, a train was in load, and one was in the cicuit. I thought if there was a midcourse brake somewhere that it would increase capacity because a train could be in load/unload, a train in the first half of the course, then a train in the second half of the course. I guess I obviously don't know what I'm talking about, I thought I sort of did.
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