Hmmm, a lot different than PKIs tests. All you need to know are safety systems, how to react to different situations, and how to run the ride (thats about it)
Oh and for those who work Arrow suspendeds: is PKIs Top Gun the only one that you have to pull a release for the final brakes AND hold down an advance button? I find that kinda odd.
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Jon Essel said:
Yeah Six Flags training is very serious on safety. The safety examinations are what this park cares about... efficiency is fifth behind safety, guest satisfaction, cleanliness of park, and personal appearance of employees. Six Flags is super strict on safety and I think this is a very good thing... the safety precautions that I have to go through reaffirm me how comitted Six Flags is to saftety.. especially with rides.
Wouldn't guest satisfaction have a lot to do with efficiency? :) Safety should obviously be first and I doubt safety is second anywhere, and good appearance of the employee should be a requirement to even get the job. Say what you want about cleanliness, but during my recent visit to SFNE, during a rain shutdown, I didn't see any of the crew on Superman sweeping or cleaning trains (and the restraints on Superman as well as the gum sitiation in the queues were gross). They just stood around and a few talked to the guests (which is good too). They also have next to no responsibility. They don't transfer trains, walk the lift or anything. I found that very interesting. Maybe it's because SF sometimes has a lot of younger employees, but at CP from 9AM to close, the ride is in the hands of the crew and park operations and NOT maintenance. Maintenance is called if something is wrong and they come to inspect the trains for bad wheels and such, but they don't run the ride at all.
Also, MisterX, are you telling me that you can walk away from the controls, leave no one there, and check restraints with the power on? If so, there is no way that is legal. How is someone going to stop the ride if necessary? I thought it was pretty standard procedure for a coaster op running controls to always be at controls and a flat ride op to be there with their hand over e-stop while the ride is running, and when they leave, they take the key with them.
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Because of the automatic braking system, we can briefly leave the controls. However, we cannot go to the other side of the dock, and we can only leave the controls once a train is stopped in the station. Obviously I don't check the entire train, usually just the first car. I'm not really "leaving" the panel because I'm always on the dock. This is pretty common because of the computer controllers on all the coasters.
Suppose there was a guest complaint. I could not walk away from the panel and see what the problem was. Another employee must handle the situation.
Additionally, there are alternate stop button locations on the dock, so a crew member is always closeby. Only for single-ride-operator attractions do you take the key with you.
PCarowinds: will you EVER be satisfied? 16 wheels of each (road, guide, upstop).
*** This post was edited by MisterX on 6/8/2002. ***
I have been working at Valleyfair Family Amusement Park in Shakopee, Mn. I have been working there for 8years now, returning every summer. I realy dont know why I keep coming back. Probably because I make new friends every year. I have made so many friends in the past years. Working at an amusment park is the best job ever also probably because I love rollercoasters so much. I will be back next year possibly be working downtime in the 2002 season.
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Valleyfair Security 2002! 8Years working at Valleyfair :)!
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SiX FlAgS FiEsTa TeXaS was great!
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SOB_TOM said:
Oh and for those who work Arrow suspendeds: is PKIs Top Gun the only one that you have to pull a release for the final brakes AND hold down an advance button? I find that kinda odd.
On Vortex at PCW you release the ready brakes, then have to open the station brakes to accept the train, if that's what you mean. Then again, Top Gun is a clone of Vortex, so I wouldn't imagine they'd be much different.
Also, does Top Gun have problems with trains sticking on the brake run on really hot days?
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As far as I have seen, Top Gun hasnt stuck in the brakes at all this season. But there are hotter days to come, so they might on extreme days. im not really sure being my first season
Coastersrz, ive ridden SOB 75.
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