Electric wheelchair transfer question

[LostLocal]

I have recently purchased an electric wheelchair. As I live in the Orlando area, I don’t have to worry about baggage handlers, so it’s my intention to use it at the parks. It is a smaller, four wheeled, RWD chair. It also has a rear push bar, and with the flip of a couple of switches, it functions as a manual chair. (Weight is about 45lbs, unloaded.)

Since it is the same size as a manual, and it is easily turned into a manual chair (for rides like Haunted Mansion and Figment, where the cast members move your chair), will I need to transfer to a manual for those ride lines that normally require you to park your ECV and transfer to a manual chair? I can walk short distances, and can transfer to ride vehicles unassisted, but I have issues with my left arm that make controlling a manual chair—well, let’s go with ‘an adventure’.

 

[SueM in MN]

Power wheelchairs, in general, are handled just like manual wheelchairs.
The reason is that they have the same kind of ‘footprint’ as manual chairs and csn turn much more sharply/in a smaller space than ECVs can.

 

[LostLocal]

Power wheelchairs, in general, are handled just like manual wheelchairs.
The reason is that they have the same kind of ‘footprint’ as manual chairs and csn turn much more sharply/in a smaller space than ECVs can.

Terrific! Thank you so much for the information. Not having to try and negotiate the decorative paving in the Haunted Mansion queue in a manual chair will be such a relief!