Good to know. Were all of those 45 hours above your line value or was the total training credit just worth 45? In order for it to all be paid above line value all of your training would need to have been scheduled on days off. If, for example, a training event worth 20 hours was placed over a trip worth 18 hours, you would only net 2 hours credit, effectively reducing the total credit value of the training event from 20 hours above line value, to only 2 hours above line value. Have you figured out what your credit would be under the distance learning LOA? It would be interesting to know.

The way that I look at this distance learning LOA is that it will effectively be replacing 1 of our 2 training events. So really, all you are potentially missing out on with the new LOA would be DHD pay to/from one of those events. The main difference here is that the LOA ensures that 10 hrs will be paid above line value where as the current system does not. Sometimes this may result in a slight loss of credit potential and sometimes it may result in a higher credit potential but over time it really should just be a wash.