Some excellent articles on Fly System Safety, courtesy of JR Clancy: J.R. Clancy Operation & Safety - Articles.
Some excellent articles on Fly System Safety, courtesy of JR Clancy: J.R. Clancy Operation & Safety - Articles.
At the theater that I work at I do alot of the flying and loading weight. I know most of the commands but there are some I can not remember.
I know:
Lineset number 12 coming in. and the response is Thank You.
When you are loading weight,
Loading Weight on lineset 12. response is Thank you. But I cant remember what you say when you are done. I always just yell Clear, or Lineset 12 complete
I've googled and searched the wiki but can not find anything. I would really like to it the proper way.
How long are your pipe extensions that they change the pipe weight that much? (Or, how light are your bricks....)
Calling down from the loading gallery has two drawbacks: You have to speak very loudly, and you have to speak very clearly. So I use short words. And I pause. Between phrases. So it's clear.
It also means I tend toward the side that says, I'm only going to speak when things are ready. I only call down that a lineset has been re-weighted when it's actually ready to fly: when we've shifted all the weight, locked the arbor, and cleared the lineset. It doesn't make any sense to call down that lineset fourteen is now twenty bricks above pipe weight, but don't fly it yet because I still have a pony clip holding up a spreader plate -- finish the job, and then call down. This saves an awful lot of noise on the stage floor.
There may, of course, be times when the head carp asks where we are in the loading process, for one reason or another (...coffee break?), but that's a whole different story.
Now of course, when I'm the head carp on the stage floor, I usually still call up to ask if the rail is clear and the lineset can fly. Sometimes the loaders can see obstructions that I can't from the stage deck.
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