Luckily, no. This is the first one of these that I've done but I don't have to go up. I've heard that some of the larger ones have elevators inside. If I get to do one of those, maybe I'll ask to go up.
I just check out the controls, transformers, output meters and interconnection to the main electrical service. All on the ground. I've been pretty high up on some cement plant pre-heat towers, though.
It's kind of disorienting when your floor you're walking on is a metal grate and you can see the ground through it a couple hundred feet below, even though there are hand rails and stuff.
