Originally Posted by
GunshipGuy
Looked in the PWA and didn't see an answer for this. If your training goes past the scheduled date do your "Shadow" days get pushed to the right or just evaporate? I'm guessing pushed to the right, but maybe someone can confirm. Thanks.
Shadow is for PBS bidding purposes only. Any trips awarded in the shadow period will be dropped (with pay) because you are not qualified to fly them. If your training/OE is delayed and conflicts with trips that fall after the shadow, they will be dropped and you will be paid for them - unless the OE operates over the same days, then you would get the greater of the 2 trips. The shadow is simply a best-guess from the company on how much of the month (for bidding purposes) you will be unavailable because you aren't yet qualified.
Here is a post from about a week ago on the topic:
Originally Posted by LeineLodge
Shadow is the amount of time the company is estimating you will be done with the sim, but not yet OE'd, therefore unqualified to actually fly a trip.
The general gouge is cram as many trips or RSV days into your shadow period as possible. Any trips awarded in your shadow period will be put on your line for construction purposes, and then immediately put back into the pot, to be awarded to someone junior to you (or left in open time.) In short, you will get paid to not fly these trips. If/when they call you for OE and it falls within your shadow period, then you will receive the greater of the trip you fly or the one they dropped.
Use something like:
AWARD Trips IF Depart on SEP 4 - SEP 14
Then do the rest of your bid...
Hopefully a good majority of your trips will be awarded during this period. Same strategy applies for RSV bidding.
The pay stacks on top if they don't get to you, and you end up doing your OE on days off after the shadow. I bid max credit in April and got a ~80 line. All of the trips touched the shadow and were dropped/paid (thanks FAR 117.)
Then I ended up doing OE near the end of the month on days off resulting in 110+ hours of pay for flying 2 3-day trips! It definitely pays to stack your days off after the shadow and then "volunteer" with the OE planner to do your OE AFTER the shadow.
This was when they were backed up on the 717 in the winter/early spring so YMMV. Happy Bidding.