Originally Posted by
Stratapilot
With the SAP can you essentially clear out your schedule and start from scratch, or are you limited to dropping down to 65 hours and then rebuild from there?
Yes, essentially you could drop all your trips and create a request with a whole new schedule.
The problem that arises is that the SAP opentime is technically not real time (as they say it is). Trips in the pot may already be on a pilots request that is above you, so if his is accepted, the trip is gone and any request that you has that included that trip gone. Where the problem comes is if you try to drop all your trips and pickup new ones on a single request, if one of the trips you wanted is already taken, that whole request gets denied.
I suppose you could create 10 different requests dropping your entire month on each request, but that's a lot of work. Personally I find it a ton easier to just do a trip or two at a time, and work it that way. Usually in the first 5 minutes of the SAP opening, I put in anywhere from 5 to 20 requests of various traders. Even if I wanted to drop a single trip I'll put in 5 different requests, each a different option to drop that trip.
Also, as far as vacation, the SAP works wonders. Just used a single week of vacation time and was able to get 21 days straight off between the blend and only working 2 trips next month, still crediting over 75 hours.