Originally Posted by
wmupilot85
So is ours.
TLV = Threshold Line Value. This is simple. You have a credit windows, that is what the software will try to build you a schedule into. The TLV, is the target it goes for before it awards an award. So lets say the window is 80-110 hours, it will try to build you a schedule in that window. if the TLV is 90, it will always try to go above 90. If it can't, it will award the schedule with 80-90 hours. If you set you personal threshold to say 80, it will shoot for 80 instead of 90.
The ILIW, isn't that where you try to swap crap that you got awarded for other crap to hold a schedule you want, when you could have just bidded for that in PBS to begin with?
Ok wait, you said the TLV is a window. Then you said it's a target and if the window is 80-110, it'll build a schedule in that window. But then you used an example of the TLV being 90, (which sounds like a target, not a window). And if it can't build a schedule to 90, then it'll use a window of 80-90? Then there is a personal threshold? Can you set the personal threshold to 60?
The ILIW is for people wanting to move a trip (stuff happens sometimes after your line is awarded that requires you to have a certain way day off) or to drop trips and get more days off (all but about 4 days are set to 4 over coverage and anybody can drop to 60 hours), or you can trade for a better trip over the same days (because sometimes people resign or go on leave and their trips fall into open time after their line was awarded). In the SLIW, you can do the same although the coverage is almost never there. But we can use bad day worse day trades to move trips (stuff happens sometimes after your line is awarded that requires you to have a certain day off), or you can trade for a better trip over the same days (because sometimes people resign, call in sick, or go on leave and their trips fall into open time after their line was awarded).
But I'm not here to argue the finer points of our line bidding and its associated work rules. I'm looking forward to PBS and was just lamenting that none of them use plain English and always have people asking about bidding. I mean, they have a whole committee of pilots just to answer questions. They don't have that with any line bidding I've ever heard of. Just wishing it was like that.