Impressive! Congrats. Hopefully you don't get bumped back down to reserve once people start moving in.

I've been SAPing for about a year now but I'll let someone (PSA Help maybe) chime in on this as I am sitting on an airplane right now.

There is a SAP guide somewhere (maybe the ALPA website), but it will come with practice and quick fingers.

But to answer your question, yes, the day before or day of the SAP opening, you will see the following month pop up under FO SAP in FLICA. It will tell you when it opens (if you think you're edible to SAP and it doesn't show up an hour prior to it opening, you better start calling people...this happened to me and they forgot to put my medical through). A few minutes before SAP opens they open a waiting room that you can sit in and it automatically updates the opentime once the time hits.

Personally, I try to be ready when it opens and put through as many requests as I can in the first 5 minutes (usually anywhere from 5-15 requests). Sometimes I get lucky, sometimes I don't. Just check back every so often as it continously updates the opentime. Some people say that going in between midnight and 4am helps as less people are in SAPing. I don't know, it all seems slow.

Anyways, good luck and congrats.