Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
I thought that PBS would award those days automatically.
It does not. I ended up on RES up to the day I started class, no 48 hours off. Turns out I was told you still have to bid those days off and if you don't get them off then that provision kicks in I guess manually? I didn't follow up, didn't care.
This is how the language reads (11 F. 2. c.):
A pilot will be afforded the option of designating two days free of duty immediately
prior to the commencement of his qualification training or the travel to such training,provided he requests such days no later than 1800E on the 4th day of the month priorto the bid period that contains the earliest of such designated days. Such designateddays will not be paid and credited as training days or have a value for lineconstruction purposes. For a reserve pilot, such designated days will constitute twoof the X-days allotted to his line under Section 12 N. 2.
Given that it requires a pilot to designate these days prior to the opening of PBS bidding for the month in question, I don't see how you can also them be made to bid for those days off in PBS, either on a regular or a reserve line.
Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
I kind of think of him as using one of those intelligent PBS like voices...
Why thank you, but must you have used such a God-awful picture of me? I so much prefer the one of Denny and me as flamingoes.