Question for Ride Ops

I got the chance to work at cedar point this summer on the magnum crew 00'and I had a blast!! I know at times it was frustrating and annoying but now that the summer is over and I look back at the good times I had, I wish that I wouldn't have been such a b****. I miss the crew and my friends and I'm sorry for having left so quickly like I did. If any of the crew from this summer reads this please email me I would like to keep in touch with you guys. Also if there is anyone else that I worked with or became firends with this summer at the point feel free to email me as well. I love all you guys and gals from the magnum crew and I miss you all. Keep in touch.
melslambs@hotmail.com *** This post was edited by killerseagual on 10/31/2000. ***

Forensicating Geminazi says:

"Actually, I went out of my way to make guests miserable. I had two good reasons to do this."

You'll fit in real well at Six Flags next season.

-cm

Personally, I find it quite hilarious that you would all take the Geminazi so seriously. I feel for those of you that can't read the sarcasm in his posts. And for the record, he was the most entertaining spieler on our ride.
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Gemini ATL 2000
9 positions in 4 1/2 hours and still keepin' both sides happy!

Shhhh Princess, you weren't supposed to tell. ;-) I always act like an *this is a family site* for the hell of it. I actually loved the job. I hated the guests though and I agree, I probably would fit in really well at Six Flags. As for Cedar Point, I might still work there next summer. I am in love with the Gemini Princess!!! She will always be my Bad Mamma Jamma. :-)
*** This post was edited by Brandon on 11/1/2000. ***

I love you Kelly! You are my hero!

"Personally, I find it quite hilarious that you would all take the Geminazi so seriously. "


Hi,

Sometimes it's hard to tell who's being sarcastic. Sarcasam and text don't mix well sometimes. My apologies to anyone offened by my "six flags" remark.

-me

I had a good time at CP this summer, and plan on going back for another. Although our hours were a little different then the rest of the parks. Our day started at 8:00am and could go until 2:00-3:00 the next morning, but it was still a blast!

When I mentioend to a MF ride op that it must suck to have to be still at the park a couple or a few hours after the park actually closes, he said it wasn't so bad because they worked basically 8 hour shifts, and the shifts included the 'predicted' amount of time after park closes they may be still working.

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http://vms.www.uwplatt.edu/~moyerc
PetFarm/PetChek 99/ATL 2000

Not unless you got stuck o-c. It only got to be bad when you closed at 2:30am and had to open at 8:00am. The whole 8 hour shift was only while we had a full staff. Towards the end of the season we all did o-c's everyday for about 2-3 weeks.

Yeah O-C's weren't all that bad but when the closing was 12am it sucked, but by that time our crew was way over staffed and then our shifts were awsome. I really liked working a 1:30-6pm or O-1:30pm those were sweet. Hey Jason, write me I sent you a email and I haven't heard from you yet.
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Melissa
Magnum crew 00'
Melslambs@hotmail.com

Are there any other Ride Operators including non-coaster rides that could enlighten this thread to the question at the top ? Just checking. I don't think we've heard from Magnum and comments from Power Tower ops would be very cool.

I've worked both Magnum and Power Tower at various points. I remember Magnum - I don't remember Power Tower.

On Magnum, it's very simple. I'm sure you've all watched the knocking on the control booth glass enough times to know how it goes. Control operator knocks once for "ready," when it is time to discontinue loading of the train (this time is determined by where the other trains are on the course and of course how many you are running). When the PA host knocks once, press a button to lock the lap bars. Knock twice when the train reaches interval, PA host says "ready ready" and hopefully knocks back twice, meaning "clear!" and then you press the dispatch button until the train is out of the station.

If it is three train operation might as well just keep pressing the dispatch button, because the other train will be coming in quite momentarily and the operator needs to be pressing the dispatch button to keep the station brakes open so that the train can come into the station.

Hopefully that's helped a bit.
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Natalie
CP Ride Operations '99-'00

Has anyone here accidentally had a train go throught the station for...whatever reason? Does the computer shut down the lift then or is it even possible to have this happen?

I could be wrong, but I thought. In normal run mode the operator holds the dispatch button down as a train enters station. If for any reason that operator needs to stop the train (someone or something crosses the yellow line) the operator lets up on button and train stops. When the train makes it back to the start point or above the sensor in the track that unlocks lap bars the train stops anyway even if the button is pressed or not. Thus no fly bys would happen.
Am I right ???

I personally would love to work as a coaster ride op but sense I live 201.8 miles away and that I'm a Junior in high school that doesn't sound very possible. After I graudate, I'm trying to get a friend of mine to go down there and work there with me and stay in the dorms.

Actually you can overshoot a train. It has happened. I remember it happening on Raptor this year, the train did not stop in the right place and the floor would not come up so we had to give a re-ride to that train. It is rare but it happens!

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Disaster Transport Crew 97-99
Raptor Crew 2000

The controls on Gemini and the controls on last year's Mine Ride would've allowed for an overshoot on a more regular basis, because there is no predetermined spot where the train stops. If the op kept the station brakes open, the train would go right through them.

I believe Kelli mentioned something about a "Flanagan" which is a full overshoot, which takes some brains and talent, lol

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Natalie
CP Ride Operations '99-'00

I guess your right Backstreet Girl. Corkscrew doesn't unlock shoulder bars, un/loaders do with levers on the side of each train. (Mine Ride also) So an op could over-shoot (Flanagan). A good question though is can an op dispatch a train with shoulder bars in the open (unlock) position or is there a saftey ? (there must be?)

Once the person doing speils has given the control booth the signal to lock the lap bars, the only way a tain can be dispatched with a lap bar up is if the unload/load person didn't check the lap bars correctly to make sure that they're locked. The reason this is so is because of the sensors in the station reply to the control pannel that the lap bars are either locked or unlocked, and if the light for the lap bars are flashing then it won't let you send the train. That's how it works on Magnum, I've not worked on any of the others so it might be a little diffent on them, but genneraly their all the same as far as safty restraints go. If I missed anything or said anyting wrong, other ride-ops help me out on this.
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Melissa
Magnum crew 00'
Melslambs@hotmail.com

Yeah your right. This year we sent a train on Raptor with one of the restraints completely up in the air(no one was in the seat). I wasn't working that day, but as luck would have it, I was in line waiting to ride. They stopped the train on the lift and sent a crew member up there, I think it was Mike Fike, to ask the person sitting next to the seat to reach over and pull the restraint down. The computer had locked all the restraints, but the computer can't tell if a restraint hasn't been pulled down to its proper position. Hey, Erin, did anyone get in trouble for that or what?

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Raptor Chris 2000
Muncie All-Stars Unite!!!!!!!!!!