It's a minute and 9 seconds from the top of the lift to the brakes. That gives a theoretical capacity of 1252pph. Plenty high. Many people have dispatch intervals of NL rides set WAY too low. Even a really quick dispatch (e.g. brand new headline ride running 3 trains) is typically 40-50 seconds, and on older rides (I got these timings on Shockwave at SFGAm) running 2 trains, dispatch intervals of well over 2 minutes aren't at all unusual. No, I don't think it needs a midcourse brake. Having one would really have broken up the flow of the ride.