Originally Posted By tiggertoo I've meant ask this a number of times but... There have been a number of times when I have gone on Pirates and most of the AAs are...dead. Audo works fine, but no movement. A couple times I mentioned it to the unload CM who seems pretty concerned...you know...the "we're going to be going 101 look" which I know all to well. So if you Pirate CMs don't mind me asking: what causes this sort of breakdown, and how easy is it to fix? Do you have to go 101 or can the set be restarted while the attraction is in operation? Thanks!
Originally Posted By Westsider It's usually a faulty hydraulic pump that causes an entire set to stop moving like that. It's a 101 criteria, but there's a scenario where maintenance can go down there and restart the pumps and/or computer controlling the pumps and get the figures moving again before we would have had time to cut the line and cycle out the ride. Sometimes though the fix takes more than 10 minutes, and we do have to shut down for awhile while they get it fixed.
Originally Posted By DlandDug I have been on POTC lierally hundreds of times, and never seen AAs "dead." Perhaps they don't like you...?
Originally Posted By tiggertoo BTW, we had the same 10 minute to get Auto lanes cleared i.e., locked bumpers, etc… Do you guys begin to hold boats or dispatching empties (stop grouping) until the issue is solved or do you continue to operates normally until the 101 call comes?
Originally Posted By tiggertoo That's what I'm thinking Doug. I’ve only seen it late in the day though. After 13 hours of continuous operation, I imagine things like this happen.
Originally Posted By Westsider It's not something that happens very often, but it does happen. Maybe once every few months? I'm not an expert on Autopia, but I do hear their 101 calls for "locked bumpers" occasionally. Again, it's not a daily thing, but maybe once a week. A little more often than Pirates closes for animation issues. We just stop loading boats. Sometimes we send 15 or 20 empty boats just so the maintenance guy can climb around the set for a few minutes and reset the pump or the individual figure. If we know it's going to be a long downtime, we cut the queue and cycle out the ride and then just sit there while they fix it. The same thing holds for Splash Mt., and Mansion.
