coaster training question.
Your duties are all the normal positions (entrance - controls and everything in between). Training involves reading over the manual for the coaster, practicing the positions, and taking a "visual board" test, which quizzes you on basic information (height requirement, etc) as well as safety procedures for the ride. Once you pass the test, and you can take it as many times as you need, you can operate controls. All the other positions you can do without passing the test. You also have to have your training checklists on file, which involve basic safety procedures for all the rides in general. It's not hard to train for a coaster, and they're a blast to run!
For more information, visit the roller coaster sections of my website (see below), especially Iron Dragon and Disaster Transport. Those were the coasters I've worked, and on those pages I really go into details about the different positions and their duties.
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For more information, visit the roller coaster sections of my website (see below), especially Iron Dragon and Disaster Transport. Those were the coasters I've worked, and on those pages I really go into details about the different positions and their duties.
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All I have to say is that CP ride ops have it easy. At the park I work at now you have to pass a test just to do load and unload positions. Then you have to take another test to do MCO ( in CP terms Controls )
Just depends on what you call easy, I guess. We make up for it in our shifts, there's no doubt about that!
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PO!NT OF VIEW - A Different Look at Roller Coasters
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Hot.....That is a definite yes......everyone must walk the lift......Make sure you take a camera up with you...great picture spots up on those....That is why i chose MF this year...at 38 yrs 0ld i dont wanna walk lifts no more...2 years of Mantis was enough....I wish you luck...4th year veteran here
Walking the lift is great. Some of my most wonderful mornings were those few minutes on top of the Iron Dragon lift, watching people run down the midway heading for Mantis (1998), but is was so beautiful and peaceful.
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PO!NT OF VIEW - A Different Look at Roller Coasters
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The only lift hill i went up was the magnum (205ft)...and that was fun...checking out the view of the meanstreak, gemini, and all the other rides...
Were you one of the peeps who came up with us for Millennium Mania?
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Natalie
Mine Ride '99 (RIDE MINE!)
Thunder Canyon '00 (TC2K RULES, SNAKE DROOLS!)
Wildcat ATL '01
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Natalie
Mine Ride '99 (RIDE MINE!)
Thunder Canyon '00 (TC2K RULES, SNAKE DROOLS!)
Wildcat ATL '01
Natalie did u work on Mine ride for a few days... i worked there one day and i think i worked with u
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Its long, hard, it never pulls out early and theres nothing like a full load in ur station every 5 minutes
CP@LERR 2000
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Its long, hard, it never pulls out early and theres nothing like a full load in ur station every 5 minutes
CP@LERR 2000
O ya I worked on Mine Ride all the time but I worked Magnum for Millennium Mania and ya the lift view was really awesome...did you walk it with us cause I don't remember...?
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Natalie
Mine Ride '99 (RIDE MINE!)
Thunder Canyon '00 (TC2K RULES, SNAKE DROOLS!)
Wildcat ATL '01
*** This post was edited by Ride of Steel on 2/25/2001. ***
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Natalie
Mine Ride '99 (RIDE MINE!)
Thunder Canyon '00 (TC2K RULES, SNAKE DROOLS!)
Wildcat ATL '01
*** This post was edited by Ride of Steel on 2/25/2001. ***
No i worked on MF during the M. Mania but i did work on Magnum in late aug. and went up that lift and was it a preaty sight i have a pic of me up there..hahaha
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Its long, hard, it never pulls out early and theres nothing like a full load in ur station every 5 Minutes
CP@LERR 2000
Hey Natalie :-) Yeah, the view from Magnum was great...got some good pix of MF and Gemini...and then there's the WildCat lift.....
Hey dustin hows it going...it looks like i will be returing...around april..ask lynze if she wants to get a place in commons or wherever...let me know
Kelly
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Its long, hard, it never pulls out early and theres nothing like a full load in ur station every 5 minutes
CP@LERR 2000
2001????????????
Kelly
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Its long, hard, it never pulls out early and theres nothing like a full load in ur station every 5 minutes
CP@LERR 2000
2001????????????
Just kidding :-) WildCat has to be the most fun ride to work - never a dull moment (Magnum being a close second).
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2000 Cedar Downs and WildCat crews
2001 Cedar Downs ATL
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2000 Cedar Downs and WildCat crews
2001 Cedar Downs ATL
I loved working on magnum for the 3 days that i did...esp the lifthill...think of a really bag loggie hitting someone from that distance hey dustin...dave is also comming back
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Its long, hard, it never pulls out early and theres nothing like a full load in ur station every 5 minutes
CP@LERR 2000
2001????
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Its long, hard, it never pulls out early and theres nothing like a full load in ur station every 5 minutes
CP@LERR 2000
2001????
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