When I was on Flight of Fear today, I noticed about halfway through the ride there were brakes, and the train completely stopped for a couple seconds. Have these brakes always been there? Because I don't remember the ride coming to such a sudden stop like that.

as far as i can remember, it seems as if those breaks always slow the train, it happens about every time I ride it.

You may have stopped for an unloading delay, and that was to prevent the trains from colliding.

Yup, those good ol' mid-course brakes pretty much make the ride that much less fun.

I'd kill for a chance to ride when they aren't running the trains with those brakes off.

I've never been on that where the completely stopped. They slow the train down about half way but i've never stopped like you did.

Those Brakes have always been there.....

Unloading Delay

I was at the park today as well. Maintenence put new breaks in and I did notice the same thing. Give it a couple of weeks. "Mid corse breaks".

Well, back in 2001 after they removed the OTSRs, they were actually running FoF at Kings Island without the midcourse brakes. Personally, I like the ride better when the brakes are on, as it makes the ride a little longer (and the turn out of the brakes is a lot more fun when you are leaning on the side of the car). Not to mention that you still enter the slow down brakes with a great deal of speed.

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Edited July 22, 200620 yr by Dane

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lmao not sob **AND*** fof!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(I mean, seriously...I never get on somebody's case for bad grammar, but reading that was like nails on a chalkboard!)

a. The brakes have always been there, but as has been said, PKI did not use them for a while after the removal of the OTSR's. FOF ran with two and even three trains during that period...and use of those brakes was not necessary to do so.

b. Joker's Jinx and Poltergeist, the two outdoor clones of the Flights of Fear, do NOT even have the brakes there; they run two trains and do so quite successfully. The blocking brakes for those rides are far later in the ride...

lol, like omgz i know!!!11one!!eleven!!1one

lmao not sob **AND*** fof!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(I mean, seriously...I never get on somebody's case for bad grammar, but reading that was like nails on a chalkboard!)

I'm glad someone else said that.

It takes me more time to decode what one of those posts says than it would be to scan the entire board.

I'm thinking that poster needs a "gentle correction."

Thanks guys.

I wish they would take the midcourse breaks off of The Beast.

What breaks at the midcourse?

Oh, you mean brakes.

Ain't gonna happen.

Either under Paramount or the new management.

I very seldom like midcourse brakes. Except on Vortex. I love going through those slooooooow corkscrews!

=o I I love those brakes there, because when u stop, and i mean complete stop, every one starts freaken out! lol its so funny.

=o I I love those brakes there, because when u stop, and i mean complete stop, every one starts freaken out! lol its so funny.

Yeah, that happened. Some people were yelling "This wasn't worth the wait!" and other explicit things