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[lift_electrical]

ccslider, on Feb 24 2005, 07:42 PM, said:

At Telluride, our lift availablity goal was 99.75%.  We'd track mechanical and electrical downtime events during hours of normal operation (operational stops and weather related downtime was tracked as a different category - you can't control wind events and avi holds). 

Over a 1000 hour season (21 weeks x 7 days x 7 hours = 1029), 0.25% downtime equates to 2.5 hours.  That translates to 1 minute and 3 seconds per day!  My guess is that this sort of relialibility is pretty standard in the Industry.
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Are you using the operators log to track downtime or maybe a print out of the stops?

[liftmech]

All of our 'lift breakdown' calls run through patrol dispatch, and they keep a timed log of the event. The same goes for wind holds and no-starts, although a no-start doesn't technically count in our downtime since the lift hadn't turned that day. We have to be prompt on the radio with this system; several times I've fixed a breakdown and hopped on my sled without calling patrol

[Allan]

Same with us - all calls through patrol dispatch. I've done the fix'n'fly lots too :) Most of the times the operator will catch it, or a manager.

[WBSKI]

I think that the Whistler Village Gondola broke down a couple years ago, people had to be evacuated. Not sure though.

[poloxskier]

Today at Snowmass Big Burn went down for about 25 minutes. I don't know the nature of the problem but they cranked up sheer bliss and they wound up the lines for the maze.

[Aussierob]

WBSKI, on Mar 21 2005, 08:54 PM, said:

I think that the Whistler Village Gondola broke down a couple years ago, people had to be evacuated. Not sure though.
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I'm not sure if it's ever been evacuated by hand. Certainly not since 1997.