Is maxair working

Ya while I was there today neither of them opened.

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Cory Marshall

Arriving to the park this morning and seeing the sign "Skyhawk will not operate today"....
brought back memories of early MF and TTD days :(

MaxAir down all day, which was fine by my tummy and I ;)
My hubby was really looking forward to riding Skyhawk so he was kind of disappointed.

We go to the park so often it's not like he won't get another chance some time soon! :)
The Skyhawk t-shirt is awesome, I just had to own one!! :)

It's early in the season yet, let CP (and some of the rides) get into the groove and all will be fine!!

Jo
Lifetime Raptor flights: 1080 :)
Lifetime Skyhawk flights: 17 :)

MaxAir and Skyhawk, lol. Maybe I shouldn't go again on Tuesday...

Phathorse said:
Man, I felt like taking a nap on there for awhile, and was really hoping they'd just send us off for another spin. At least my seat (8) was in the sun so I was kinda warm.

Haha, seat 8. I do believe you were the guy I was laughing at from the midway for looking like you'd fallen asleep. I don't blame you, I'd have probably been sleeping too.

I just saw on the Funcoast.com web cam that it appears to be running.

Couldn't tell if there were people on it but is was running and acheiving full swing height.

Also, saw TTD, WT, MF and Raptor all running.
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LOL, yeah Ralph that was me. Wife and I had gotten up after little sleep the night before, raced to the park with out 2.5 hour drive, got there before 9 for the first time ever, and what with the gentle rocking motion, it was tough to not just relax and take a quick 40 winks.

its 751 in the morning, im going today, ill reply later but yesterday (monday) it was down all day swinging back and forth still. The op looked like she was having a great time sitting there watching it too.

The worst part was watching the masses flock when it would test. We fell victim to that a couple times, but from sunday to monday they seemed to not make any progress, even though it tested many times on monday. It still just did the same thing....back....and forth....

And with every test, a long line forms...only to slowly dissipate in about a half hour to nothing, even though there are no crew around the ride, just the ride op pushing the buttons in the station.

Any update?

No one has posted anthing about Maxair so I'm assuming it's still not running.

Am I right?

I got one ride on maXair today early around 11am. I was at Raptor around 2 though and it was down again.

Thanks

When I left the park tonight it was running.

Not only is Maxair running and running well, it seems they now have a significantly longer cycle on it. It had to be running at least two or three extra full power swings before returning to park with no problems. A longer cycle is fine and dandy with me. :)

I noticed that as well this morning, but I thought maybe one of the ride ops did something to make it longer since I was a solo JCC ERT rider.

Either way, it's back up and running, and is a heck of a lot of fun.

If only they would make Skyhawk that few extra swings longer. :(

Such a great ride, but really short IMO.

They did make it 1 full-power swing longer from opening day.

That doesn't make it 2 minutes though, does it? I noticed that the reporter from the story Walt posted even mentioned that it was only one minute long. Hopefully by August it will be 2 minutes. I love the swings.

The sad thing is that testing maXair some more would have revealed the problem before opening day. I couldn't believe the overall simplicity of the problem when I found out what it was.

Thats possibly true, but sometimes they just don't know. I was upset that I didn't get to ride opening day and on tuesday. However, theres always other days.