crane detail (Crane)

Boiler Run Crane

The Boiler Run crane is controlled over radio band 27.0.

The crane is a physical moving room. Someone may be standing inside it,
so movement orders have real physical consequences.

Calling the crane

Tune a usable radio to band 27.0 and address the crane or its operator.

Examples:

    crane, take her to the 5th
    operator, bring her to the top
    boiler run, take her to the 13th
    hoist, bring her down two

Ordinary radio chatter is ignored unless it actually addresses the crane.

Destinations

The crane serves floors 2 through 17.

You can give a floor directly:

    crane, 6th floor
    crane, take her to fourteen
    crane, seventeenth

Common destination names also work:

    crane, top
    crane, dock
    crane, Queen's level

Relative movement is supported:

    crane, up one
    crane, down two
    crane, lower her by three

Read-back and confirmation

Relative movement is read back before the car moves.

Example:

    You:   crane, down two
    Crane: That puts her at the 4th. Confirm?
    You:   confirmed

While a valid read-back is pending, you do not need to address the crane
again. A short confirmation such as:

    yes
    confirmed
    roger
    go ahead

can answer the pending read-back.

The confirmation window is temporary. A confirmation when no read-back is
pending does not move the crane.

Whole-word orders

The crane distinguishes actual command words from pieces of other words.

For example:

    crane, stop

does not mean:

    crane, top

Likewise, words such as "playground" do not mean "ground".

Operator requirement

The console does not operate the crane by itself.

If nobody capable is physically on duty at the crane console, the work band
goes unanswered. The crane does not silently substitute an automated
operator.

See also:

    help radio system
    help communications system

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