Flight Deck Front Row (HD POV) California's Great America
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Opened: March 19, 1993
Type: Steel - Inverted
Manufacturer: Bolliger & Mabillard
Designer: Werner Stengel
Model: Custom
Height: 102 ft (31 m)
Drop: 91 ft (28 m)
Length: 2,260 ft (690 m)
Speed: 50 mph (80 km/h)
Inversions: 3
Duration: 2:26
Capacity: 1330 riders per hour
G-force: 4.5
Height restriction: 54 in (137 cm)
Trains: 2 trains with 7 cars. Riders are arranged 4 across in a single row for a total of 28 riders per train.
Flight Deck (formerly Top Gun) is a steel inverted roller coaster located at California's Great America in Northern California. Built by Bolliger & Mabillard, Flight Deck made its debut March 19, 1993 as Top Gun. This was Bolliger & Mabillard's second inverted coaster behind Batman: The Ride at Six Flags Great America. The third inverted coaster from Bolliger & Mabillard opened a little under two months later at Six Flags Great Adventure. Flight Deck at California's Great America isn't quite as tall, nor as fast or long (in length) as its partner, Afterburn at Carowinds.
The ride begins with a small right-hand turn followed by the 102-foot (31 meter) lift hill. The drop at the top of the hill begins with a sharp left turn. After the initial drop of 91 feet (27 meters), the train reaches its maximum speed of 50 miles per hour (80 kilometers per hour). Flight Deck then enters a vertical loop. The ride then performs a banked 3/4 turn to the right followed by a zero-gravity roll. Following this, the train makes a short dive under the entrance sign and then banks left into a flat turn, passing the ride's station. After this, there is a shallow drop immediately followed by a corkscrew over a nearby pond . The ride features another 3/4 turn, this time banking to the left. Finally, the train turns right into the brake run and station.
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Flight Deck… So small, so short, yet so powerful. Old-school B&M were masters at executing intense elements. While I count RailBlazer as the best coaster at my home park, FD (fka “Top Gun”) will always be my sentimental favorite.
Have u been on Batman
Nemesis at Alton Towers is the best old school B&M invert
@@generalbacon6955 correct
@@antimcgregor8139 Top Gun is miles better than the Batman clones.
I used to go here every year. havent been since ~'05. Top Gun was easily the best rollercoaster in the park. No question. Vortex not so good, but still really cool. Demon is rough. Grizzily has a line of 3 people and you can ride it over and over and over until you're bored... haha
This ride made me grey out so much especially the valley after the first drop. Love this rides sheer intensity!
One of the original B&M inverted coasters still holding up for over 20 years now :)
And closer to 30~!
Tony Kim Nemesis at Alton Towers is beater
I loved this coaster when I rode it. CGA is no longer my home park but I miss this ride and RailBlazer
i sadly passed out on this ride and when i woke back up it was already over so this is really helping me see how fun the ride is even when i wasnt all there.
This will forever be top gun to me
Top Gun 4 life
MaNiC gAbE I still refuse to call it Flight Deck.
I still call it the Tom Cruse
I almost fainted when I went on it, it was amazing
I think this one was the first truly intense rollercoaster I've ever been on. Only recently started getting into rollercoasters, Gold Striker and Patriot were fun, but this ride was THRILLING. Felt like fainting a little (in a good way of course).
My first B&M. Highly underrated!
agreed, very underrated invert
I loved riding flight deck it was fun ❤❤
this ride was cool and my personal favorite. and for us we waited a couple mins before the park closed and there was no line
Looks like a good invert
It is, it's short but intense. Best part has to be that helix over the water.
It looks around about a tie with great bear
@@thecrazycoaster6635 personally I think it's better than Great Bear, the forces on the Bear are not as intense
surprised how well this 90s invert holds up tbh, rode it yesterday (June 2024) and man that corkscrew-helix combo is very forceful
Reminds me alot of afterburn at carowinds except smaller. Love these inverts tho
Valleyfairs new roller coaster!
Oh yeah, I remember my first time on Flight Deck (Top Gun). I remember being in the front that time.
I went on this ride, but not in the front seat. I remember this ride had my head get stuck down from the air pressure :0
Such a great coaster :)
Looks like a good invert, hope it gets relocated to a smaller park
if they relocated this to Canada's Wonderland and replaced *their* Flight Deck with this, I would be very happy - genius decision (the Canadian Flight Deck is an absolutely awful Vekoma SLC and needs to go, rough af and a total waste of space)
It was a great park in the 80s my uncle brought us there as kids
looking at the RCDB. it looks like in the Early 90s it was one of the best parks in CA.
It was much more terrifying when I was actually on the ride LOL
1:16- Et voilá! Nemesis’s first drop!
Spiraling over Theatre Royal
Do you think this ride will be scrapped or will it possibly move to ValleyFair?
I would hate to see another B&M invert scrapped
@@richardlong172 same but it is getting old
@@owenfouts2494 it can be refurbished
I think it will be scrapped. Its old, and its built to the elevation changes of the park, much like the dueling dragons in Orlando.
That said, IMO Railblazer and Vortex have the best chance at being relocated. Railblazer is new, and Vortex while old is built on fairly flat ground. I wonder if Cedar Fair is willing to sell it to Six Flags. SFDK has been expanding in the last few decades.
VERY YOU BE FRONT ROW ON CALIFORNIA'S GREAT AMERICA - FLIGHT DECK ROLLER COASTER !!!
😀👍
cool
Hey not sure if you posted this anywhere but what kind of camera are you using that you would recommend as sarecommend a safe for roller coaster POV?
I use pivothead glasses, but I would suggest any type of camera glasses with a strap. Just be aware though that some parks prohibit them.
They should give that name to a flying coaster
My lap bar went up right before the last loop and I am now scared to step foot on this ride 👹
There are so many things wrong with this sentence including but probably not limited to:
1. The ride features over the shoulder restraints, not lap bars
2. There is only 1 loop on the ride, the other inversions are a zero g roll and a corkscrew
3. You cannot step foot on the ride itself or the ride car because your feet dangle from the trains
But ok
My friend passed out in this😂
California's great America..I never heard of it before.. How does it compare to six flags?
California's Great America is part of the Cedar Fair parks chain. It gets competition from a Six Flags park about 1 hour away called Six Flags Discovery Kingdom
The Six Flags Great America outside of Chicago was originally a twin park to California’s Great America in Santa Clara. They both opened as Marriott’s Great America in 1976 with the same rides, but then in the early 80’s they started to differ with the Chicago park adding bigger coasters which the Santa Clara park couldn’t build. Then Six Flags bought the Chicago park and Paramount bought the Santa Clara park who eventually sold to Cedar Fair and they’ve been really different ever since.
Its equivalent to Discovery Kingdom, inferior to Magic Mountain.
How many Gs does this have
4.5 vertical g-forces at the bottom of the first drop
Looked super dope except the part from 1:11 to 1:18. That part just looks so boring and forceless, why would they design it that way?
First lol