Ride Review: Ravine Flyer II

On May 19, 7:40 am, "kirk_ritche...m"
<kirk_ritche...m> wrote:
> On May 18, 11:18 pm, "BaSSiStiSt" <dreadpirateb...@>
> wrote:
>
> > "Tim Melago" <rollo...@> wrote in message
>
> >news:1683d606-4299-4d07-a5ee-33ccd1f359da@r66g2000hsg..com...
>
> > > Ride Review: Ravine Flyer II at Waldameer Park
> > > May 17, 2008
>
> Tim,
>
> Thanks for the detailed report. It sounds like a great fit for
> Waldameer. It is good to see parks like this one continuing to add to
> their future. Already a great park and I am sure this will only make
> it better.

Thanks for the report. We are looking forward to riding it this
weekend.

> I was a bit worried about the station entry procedure. They have a
> ticket taker in the station who controls the flow of the crowd into
> the queue area. They were doing a count 24 system where they'd try to
> fill up one train's worth of people. For my first ride I asked if I
> could hold back and wait for the back seat. The guy was a bit
> uncertain but allowed me to wait. I later noticed that some people
> were just waiting a train behind in the queue anyway without any
> hassle. It actually reduced the wait for the front and back cars since
> the GP felt compelled to fill in the remaining seats most of the time.
> Maybe they're just used to the Comet and the CLP Blue Streak. Loading
> the ride took a long time. They used the Gwazi method. They had two
> people checking seatbelts then they would lower the lapbars and check
> them separately. They really need two more people to help load if
> they're going to do this or the operation will be slow even with two
> trains.

That's hilarious, given their op procedures on Comet.

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Wolf <bill.bussone@> wrote:
: > I was a bit worried about the station entry procedure. They have a
: > ticket taker in the station who controls the flow of the crowd into
: > the queue area. They were doing a count 24 system where they'd try to
: > fill up one train's worth of people. For my first ride I asked if I
: > could hold back and wait for the back seat. The guy was a bit
: > uncertain but allowed me to wait. I later noticed that some people
: > were just waiting a train behind in the queue anyway without any
: > hassle. It actually reduced the wait for the front and back cars since
: > the GP felt compelled to fill in the remaining seats most of the time.
: > Maybe they're just used to the Comet and the CLP Blue Streak. Loading
: > the ride took a long time. They used the Gwazi method. They had two
: > people checking seatbelts then they would lower the lapbars and check
: > them separately. They really need two more people to help load if
: > they're going to do this or the operation will be slow even with two
: > trains.
:
: That's hilarious, given their op procedures on Comet.

....which, by the way, have not changed. 8-)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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