Originally Posted by Han Solo

I am curious how people can drop trips when the entirely of the trip falls over black RES coverage days. A trip which had been a Q trip recently became actual open time over 4 black days, I looked at the pilot history in icrew and the reason was DROT which I'm pretty sure is a plain drop, not IVD or APD. The RES availability for the days of the trip are 14/11, 18/15, 20/15, and 16/11 (REQ/Avail). There was no other movement on that day, so it's not like there was a sudden rush of open time trips that were picked up which gave this pilot the window of opportunity to drop. This is a dropped 4 day trip that covers 4 black days.

The trip had a Q next to it since the PBS run on the 20th and it only recently became actual open time. I thought I had a basic understanding of how PCS works but I've seen stuff like this happen a few times and don't understand why, can anybody help explain this? My only lingering thought is maybe DROT is some kind of chief pilot input since there is no help button to list what the codes stand for. Thanks.