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thanks I see how it works now gonna try anyway, if it does lock & I get too dizzy I could just pull the bar out of the notch right? I dont care for these rides alot, too much swinging & not enough looping. Its so fast my stomach goes into my mouth every loop & when its full speed the force kinda sticks you in your seat so no hang time until it slows down. it gets sickening after a couple minutes. The rock o plane looks slower like it would give me hang time at the top of each loop & a bit easier on the stomach! I love hang time & if the brakes on the rock o plane will hold it will give me alot more hangtime than Kamikaze when its loading!

I dunno I was looking at this at 4:40 he puts the brakes on before he unlocked the door. you can hear it latch when he pulled the brake. it'd be alot of fun to ride it like this & a thrill to not be able release the brake

Cool fun!! Is it as slow to unload as it looks? Must have been upsidedown nearly a full minute! I'm gonna ask the ride op to keep the loading brake on & see if it holds. Which is more fun, lock upsidedown at the bottom or the top? I looove the thought of hanging upsidedown high in the air but it maybe fun to go thru the loading area upsidedown so you get some negative g's! I dunno if the rock o plane turns fast enough to pull strong negative g's?

Cool, gonna have to try this! I bet you got alot of hang time when the ride was unloading Anyone else got the brake stuck? can you unstick it if you get too dizzy?

angry_gumball thanks but i know how the brake inside the cage works my question is about the other brake lever on the outside of the cage for loading & unloading. The brake in the cage needs to be pulled all the time to keep the cage locked but the brake lever outside doesnt. The ride op pulls it once and the brakes stay on like a car handbrake. Fuuuun How did you get the ring to stick, that's what I want to try

Gonna give it a go when the fair comes next week! Looking on youtube there is a lever on the outside to lock the cage when loading & unloading. Wouldn't it be fun to ask the ride op to keep the brake lever locked, loads of inversions I heard slipping brakes are common on rock o planes & this might hold the brakes tighter than i can by hand? I don't care for controlling the cage i just want inversions But if I get too dizzy would i be able to unlock the outside brake lever from inside the cage? Does the rock o plane have operator controlled speed, i see on youtube some are slow & others fast the cages even flip without the brakes!