Amazing Nitro Operations!! - Six Flags Great Adventure 

As a former ride op who prided himself in throughput, I love when hardworking crews get the recognition they deserve.

I rode Nitro, El Toro, and Bizarro each a few times during a quick visit in the early morning this week. No lines. Nitro is still my favorite ride at the park after so many years, and the ride ops are indeed awesome.

The Nitro crew has been exceptional this year.

This is what happens when you don't have dumb seat belts under the clamshells. Ahem, Cedar Fair.

Oml these operations are insane! Please do more of these. As a ride op at Behemoth im jealous Nitro crew is able to cycle that many trains an hour. Unfortunately the CF B&M hypers have seatbelts so we try to get 33 trains an hour which is tough with seatbelts as well as loose article binz. We managed to hit 40 cycles once this year and on the last day we hit 39! Without seatbelts Behemoth used to be able to operate like Nitro. The highest ever was 49 cycles an hour in 2008 when it opened. Can’t believe Nitro would dispatch as soon as the train drops off the lift! Insane!!!! So cool to see!!!

Nitro ops have been INCREDIBLE this season, they are killing it!

Literally they were dispatching the trains so fast that they had to wait for it to clear the lift hill before sending the next.

I want to see more videos like this. It feels cool to watch!

Dude during fright fest nitro’s line went to the switchbacks but it only took 15 minutes!! The ops have been great!

Those are some legit legendary dispatches! I wish Magic Mountain and Knott's could get with the program like this. In fact besides Twisted Colossus I can't think of a single ride with 3 train ops at SFMM. They all seem to have their third trains stripped down for refurb. Mad props to this crew! The best ops I've ever seen in my life were at Kings Island this past Saturday (10/05/19) but this crew at GAdv were killing it in this video!

Please do more operations videos! That's super interesting!

3 trains in motion at all times... just as Walter and Claude designed it to be.

Arguably the best 3 train ops out there! Always my go - to when I’m after re-rides. Shame it has such a long exit! 😋

A major coaster running at theoretical capacity is almost unheard of. Holy crap.

No damn joke. It’s amazing how they’re pumping rides out.

46/hr with 2 on restraints is absolutely insane. I operated Vortex at KI this summer and we only got anywhere near that one hour all year, when we got 47 cycles, but we had five on the floor.

Nitro has always been my fav coaster in the park, this year's been no different. So far I haven't seen nitro down anytime I've come out, and it's always running all three trains with a less then 10 minute wait consistently. Anytime I'm in the park I always recommend it, it's a long, fantastic coaster.

Nitro's designed so you can dispatch another train as soon as the previous one clears the lift. That's how you hit capacity. The best way to measure the quality of operations is to listen to the lift motor. As soon as you hear it slow down, start counting, and stop when the train in the station begins to move. Less than 5 seconds is fantastic, 5-10 is great, 10-15 is good, 15-20 is OK. The other way you can tell when the operations are fantastic is when the trains don't stop at all on the last brake block before the station.

Back when i worked at Great America I loved to be at bull. My friends and I whenever we were up there would race through the train and have it checked within 15 seconds. We loved being up there and it was such a great memory. Looking to try and be Raging Bull crew 2020 next year

According to GAH, the crews of Nitro have set records in the past for the highest number of riders out of any Six Flags coaster. I 100% believe this is true.

One of the most efficient rides since it’s opened in 2001. Always a car heading up the lift hill when another is finishing up. I’ve always loved that. Nitro and the now gone Great American Scream Machine always ran amazing.

my home park, nitro seriously has one of the bhgest operations ive ever seen, there is literally no wait almost every time I go there.

Six Flags Great Adventure really does an awesome job of training operators, they always have really good energy whenever I'm there. I feel almost spoiled when I go to other parks that I'm further from because even at KI I didn't feel like the operations were as consistent (they weren't BAD) as I've gotten at Great Adventure this year.

Yes. This ride has the absolute best operations in the park.

Have to agree. Went to the park August 2019 and I was amazed by the ops. Good stuff Nitro crew!

Excellent operations video. I have never seen one done like this before. This is the best way to break it down to an average time. I hope you do more operations videos for other coasters.

This is the only ride crew that could rival Europa Park's legendary fast operations. Silver Star runs like this all season long, regardless of how crowded the park is. I have never seen Silver Star run less than 3 trains and they hardly ever stack them on the final brake run, and they also only have two checkers. Big kudos to this year's Nitro crew: as a former ride operator obsessed with throughputs, hats off to you guys! I really hope you get those 2 million riders ;-) More parks should show good examples of good operations like this video during staff training.

During ROTB, there was a guy with a broken arm running nitro and he was still going really fast!

I'm obsessed with this video!!!

We need a 10 hour loop

Nitro’s crew though! That’s impressive for only 2 attendants. I was at SFOG last Sunday for Fright Fest and Goliath’s crew was hustling as well. Granted they had 4 attendants checking seats but they were pumping out trains like crazy. I counted only once where a train was still in the station when the other train hit the brakes. With Goliath having a shorter ride time and no MCBR, Its not easy getting the trains out at that speed - especially considering the GP who think they can lounge in the station after they get off the ride.

Nitro has the best ops!!!!

I was at KI yesterday and they were absolutely killing it on Diamondback. I got in four rides, and I don't think I ever saw a train hit the final brakes without another already cresting the lift hill. I will admit that isn't the norm, though. This is pretty amazing to see in action, though. Especially with that level of consistency.

Ryan great video.

As someone who used to do Safari there, all we ever hear about was Nitros impressive numbers. I believe it was the 2015 season, and even on what was statistically a down year we only ever beat them on hourly put through for a single hour like twice all season. And Safari used to pump out fast, with 20 trucks of 32 person capacity on a 40 minute tour. The numbers nitro pulled blew me away.

Another interesting vid with a unique concept. I'm rooting for that crew and wish all ride operating crews were similarly driven and successful. What a wonderful world it would be. =)

This seems like Roller Coaster Tycoon style operations. Maximum 90 second wait!

Hopefully jersey devils crew will be as good

I’m pretty sure now that operation videos have come out some parks have been shifting their practices to get faster times. Not sacrificing safety, but doing it faster. I’ll vouch that surprisingly Six Flags America was doing a decent job this time. (They were running two trains more often this year.)

This is the best roller coaster operations wise at the park. Always quick to load, process and go. After this, it would have to be El Toro and Bizarro for a close second. When is the next time you guys are going? Would love to meet y'all in person!!!

I was there last Saturday and they were dispatching trains like clockwork, every time I rode as the train hit the bottom of the lift you could see the train on the course go over that second hill. Then right before you hit the brakes you could see the next train creeping over the top of the lift. Top crew out there, last year too.

KI could learn a thing or two from these operators holy fuck they are doing God’s work at that park

I was a ride operator on Nitro in 2011 great time .... walked the lift hill every day and even walked it to get to the stranded car... train in station gates would not close so everybody stops lift hill and brake run but awesome time used to work six flags and was a lead and a trainer back in 1990 love my old park... last thing even got the impractical jokers before they aired as a punishment was in the front attendant position but it was never shown... Scott

Ayyy lmao. Ryan you know if they gon have El Toro open for holiday in the park?

Great video -- would love to see others. I'm not surprised that Nitro is meeting the Theoretical Capacity of 1656 (46 x 36) since they have good ride ops and no seat-belts. I would guess B&M was using whole numbers since you can't send 0.154 of a train. Awesome that the actual value was able to hit the theoretical value (I doubt many other coasters can say this). Give those 2 ride ops a bonus check!!

Very nice. These are easy trains to get in and out and easy to check making it fast operations. I doubt every train is filled though. Do this on other coasters there

Nitro team this year was amazing! Their dispatch times were on point! 👍

Could you please do this for other rides at other parks! Seeing fast park operations is especially interesting to me

Hot damn only two restraint checkers? Must be some very cooperative guests and some good speiling to make sure guests know what they're doing and do it quickly. Does nitro have bins? If so that's impressive as hell getting riders to put stuff in bins and back in those seats that fast. I would actually love to file a guest compliment so the ops know they're doing great if I was there to witness it. Does nitro have seatbelts?

That’s unbelievably fast. Nothing here in San Antonio can match that. Even if we have 4 or 5 people crews. And Nitro has 9 rows!

Thanks A LOT for this proper Operations video just like it should be done. I was getting tired of people doing totally wrong/unusable Operations check videos. (No Offence to Coaster Studios, he does amazing contents, but his operations videos aren't really telling/showing anything most of the time because they aren't done correctly at all...). And obviously Nitro don't suffer from seatbelt meme (like most rides in the US do...), so you can't really compare it with Diamondstack that does. Also Nitro don't have hydraulic restrains, it's the good ol Click ones, so there is no resistance in pushing them down and so basicaly the Nitro crew just ask people to hand up and push the lap bars 2 by 2 passing each row real quick and you are done. (Not saying it's easy to be that fast, they do amazing jobs, but there is comparaisons that can't be done sometimes because some restrain systems WILL make the loading/unloading much slower even with the best crew ever).

This is fascinating and some great ops! I want to do this with Diamondback to compare, probably by using the laps function my phone's stopwatch

Still the best ops I've ever seen on a ride. Glad its at my home park

Too bad most parks don't run thier B&M coasters like this. Excellent operations!

Nitro and bizzaro have had amazing ops this season. Best outro song btw #emo

Probably the best dispatches of any coaster I've been on... Diamondback stacks all the time. At least 6 Flags doesn't put seatbelts on their rides unless they are required to.

Love this videos

This is crazy

Ayy at 5:08 that's me on the right in the front row

Thats amazing, kudos to the crew! Does SF run all of its coasters this efficiently? Best I have seen in my limited experience is the Fury 325 crew but they arent this efficient I don't believe.

Loved this OPs video!

Nitro dispatch is still amazing

The Nitro crew is always fast, one time when i went to ride, they dispatched a train and the lift motor didn’t even slow all the way yet

Nitro eats people. Fastest line ever

Was at GA for fright fest yesterday night and in the last 30 minutes before close my 3 friends and I got 9 rides in a row. Best time on nitro for sure

Nitro CONSISTENTLY has Fury-Tier Operations. Now what the hell is up with Bizarro...

Other than Disney, the best ops Id seen have been on Raging Bull. Those hypers can really send it

Everytime I go to six flags, I go straight to ride nitro first. With this coaster being the furthest from the rest of the parks rollover coasters with the exception of Batman the ride, it only makes sense to ride nitro first.

When did you film this? I was there yesterday and the Nitro crew was incredible! They're usually quick, but yesterday was lightning fast.

Nitro has always been this way I believe at one point it actually had the most ridership of any six flags coaster in a year even beating the magic mountain coasters which are year round.

I was just there today and lines were none existent and i rode nitro 3 times and noticed that they werent even going slow just because theyre not that busy and i say to myself damm theses dispatches r fast, the crew is amazing and nitro definately has the best operations i feel like in the park, btw were u there today on the 6th

I’m waiting on a ride op job at Busch gardens Tampa rn, hopefully I can get stationed in Egypt, I have a friend that is already stationed at montu

This is a really good operation video ;) please try it on other ride dude

The only problem I had with Nitro this year was that there was a swarm of bees at the top of the lift hill. Nothing they could’ve done about it, but I enjoyed watching them go up there with spray lmao

I need to know when this crew is working. They got Cedar Point dispatches, no stacking!!!!

I've only seen this raw strength once before.

I’ve ridden Nitro at least a dozen times this year. The ops are always top notch!

Noice

🙌

Hello who says six flags can’t get good dispatches

Wish Toro’s ops were better cause last night they were stacking trains and each dispatch was at least 2:30 or more

Been on nitro about 15+ times this season

I do want to raise the question of whether Nitro has seats belts underneath the lap restraints, considering Diamondback has them, and whether that would be a factor to consider on hourly capacity with crew needing to check both per seat or just one?

I think I just came. This is so impressive and makes me mad at the SteVen ops who were stacking both trains last week

Did they hit 2 mil?

👍

I wish I could operate an amazing coaster like this but what I get is merlins mayhem at dutch wonderland, dont get me wrong it's good but it's really repetitive and also breaks down easily

I hate how Intamin gives false capacity numbers. They piss me off as a company so much. There’s nobody who makes better rides for parks than B&M.

You do this a lot better than Taylor tbh considering you actually counted the time between each cycle compared to when the gates open to when the all clear is given. Which really doesnt mean anything important.

Phenomenal, what are the average queue line times on a heavy day

i was on a train once and they dispatched in like 15 seconds i didn’t feel safe at all going up the lift hill

This is more efficient than cedar point three train ops. I’ve watched the webcams and there’s constant double stacking on valravn and raptor, all the time. Pretty pathetic compared to what’s shown here

I smell Tyler somewhere

Hey mang

Did they hit 2 million?

someone tell the el toro crew to pull is off there slow as hell on toro

big lift hill

Nitro > El Toro

All them other coasters at six flags need to do extremely fast dispatches like nitro. Ride opts please take lesson!

Sooo many empty seats on those trains. Some have entire empty rows. Makes your math incorrect when there are 4-6 empty seats per train.