windseeker is open

It was really windy last night. I was pretty surprised Dragster was running.

At the park now in line for Magnum. Only running coasters are MF, Magnum, WT, and Raptor. Pretty crappy weather, rainy and windy. Hopefully it gets better. Second excursion to find a down Windseeker.

Sorry about that vwhoward, but glad it didn't rain bad yesterday cuz I can't go back for over two weeks and I was able to ride everything multiple times except the main one I wanted to

^It's cool. Everything is open now, except Windseeker, and the rain went away (for now). We were able to walk up to TTD as it opened and waited 10 minutes for front row. Just anxiously waiting to see WS rise up that tower.

^^ that's cool, that was me yesterday every so often would walk over there just hoping to see it rise or move but no luck even at 9 at night

Still no running in Windseeker...nothing else down in the park so hopefully it'll start up soon.

Even Sky Ride?

^Skyride is not running. It's windy here but not terrible. As for WS, hopefully they can figure out how to run it when it finds what it seeks. If not, I fear a lot of downtime for this one.

With this ride and wind problems I don't know how much rides it will be giving during halloweekends when the wind is always blowing

I too was disappointed to see WindSeeker down for wind on my latest visit to CP. Every ride in the park was running except Sky Ride, so it's scary that WindSeeker is going to have Sky Ride-level sensitivity to wind. I wonder how much it would have been down if it had been a Star Flyer...

^It seems that way. It really calmed down last night for the last 3-4 hours of the day but not even a test run. I was told by multiple people (guests and employees) that it hasn't ran since early afternoon Wednesday. Also, I was very disappointed that as it grew darker, the only lights on it were the ones at the top. It was bad enough I haven't been able to ride it in 3 trips this season but they couldn't even turn the lights on.

Well, I'm not sure if this is accurate or not. But, from a quote on this page, you can see that the Starflyers will run in wind speeds up to 44mph. However, as you can see on this page, the capacity would have been a lot less. The ride only holds 24 riders. The capacity is made up a bit with a shorter ride cycle. So, when it's actually running, you'd have a longer wait for a shorter ride (though I suppose the ride cycle wouldn't be set in stone). What I'm confused about is it says a maximum of 96 meters. I thought they had one a lot taller than that.

Well whatever the deal was, it seems to have been resolved. Windseeker is open again.

Glad to hear, Adam. Bums me out I missed it again. There was no ride op at WS until around 9:00pm but when I asked he told me it can't operate in 25 mph gust or higher. I understand about talking with ops about things, I've been around here enough to expect some comments on this, but shouldn't they know things like that? If this is the case and the starflyers can operate in 44 mph wind gusts (per Jason a couple of posts up) then how can they say they went with Mondial for the reliability issue. 96 meters (also per Jason in same post) is roughly 315 ft so it could have at least matched WS in height but possibly surpassed it in reliability and perhaps thrill, with the chains and all.

The thing is, I don't think the park ever said anything about going with Mondial because of reliability. We don't even know for sure if the Funtime was ever considered. I believe every thing was conjecture on our part.

I guess you're right, the 'park' never did. However, according to Mondial's website, they "designed Windseeker for a client seeking a starflyer-type ride that can operate during normal wind conditions". Normal wind conditions seems to me would be relative to the client. And I'm quite sure CF officials making these decisions should know what normal wind conditions are for their parks, especially the conditions CP experiences.