nopac6

Wow, I can see why you're still in the dark about all of this. It's been explained THOROUGHLY in this thread and you obviously haven't read any of it.

It's horrible advice because you're telling him that the way to avoid flying for free when picking up flying is to bid a line that has you fly for free. How is that helpful?

Read what UALinIAH said:

"2 weeks of Vacation in Oct pays 85.5 hrs. Many BES is 70 hrs min. 5 days of flying for 85.5 hrs. You’re going to fly 15 hrs free so that you can pick up a day trip or something?"

He then goes on to say:

"Every minute over LCF up to MPG is free. But yeah, if you want to fly 15 hrs for free (in a 2 week vacation month) so that you can pick up some other trips then go for it."



This explains it perfectly. If viper bids an LCF line, he'd be getting 15.5 hours for free. If he follows your advice and bids a line that exceeds the 85.5 hour MPG, yeah he'd be able to pick up trips without "flying for free" but only because he foolishly bid a LINE that already had him flying for free.

It's bad enough that there are people who have been here a long time who still can't grasp this simple fact but to then to see those people get on a message board and perpetuate this misunderstanding as "advice" to others is just maddening.