General

• If it looks or sounds funny - WHY?
• “One of these things is not like the other”
• Pay attention, look for things that aren’t as they should be. Write it down.

Policy

A user shall not attempt a procedure he is not competent to perform. The Production Manager, Technical Director or Head Flyman will determine competency.

Each theater has a clipboard with a lineset schedule for the current show and a maintainace log.

Skills

• Knots
  • Bowline
  • Clove


• Counter Weight Systems Operation
  • Basic flying
    • Run aways - YELL “RUN AWAY” not “heads”, do not try to stop the line.
    • Spikes - how we set them
    • Flying sets in and out
      • The rope lock is not a brake
  • Loading and unloading
    • communication - rail to deck
    • spreader plates, locking collars
    • How to load
      • Ideal situation - pipe in, arbor at loading bridge
      • Out of balance situation - the Wrap
      • Chain motor
      • Double purchase
  • Kicking Loft Blocks
    • Drury
    • Bolton


• Spot lines
  • Placing Loft blocks
    • Drury
    • Bolton
  • Tying Off
  • Spiking


• Assembly of hardware
  • Crosbies
  • Shackels
  • Nicos
    • how to use the gauge


• Drury Main Curtain
  • Emergency Stop
  • Basic Operation
  • Trim setting


• Fire Curtain
  • How to manual operate
    • Drury
    • Bolton
  • How to Emergency release
    • Drury - pull ring
    • Bolton - electric
  • How to reset
    • Drury
    • Bolton