Originally Posted by
SilentLurker
The questions I read on here! Not knocking you but short answer is: YES!
“Welcome Aboard” packet from union. Take a quick look at that.
Fleet specific bid packets take a quick look at the front page.
Much better resources than APC....
1. “Welcome Aboard” packet issued by ALPA during Indoc! Almost all questions you think you might have is answered in that packet! It’s a great read, clearly written, well explained details I wish I had during my indoc days, or 1st year.
2. During IOE, your IOE Instructor will go through many things with you before released to the line, including bid packets. If not just ask. If not quick Crew Room visit. Just ask anyone.
3. Two days of base Move Day & 1 Base Indoc Day. Plenty of time to ask someone.
4. Again Plenty of time to walk the crew room to find a FO or CA to speak with.
5. Also contact or email your mentors,fellow union members/LECs/P2Ps.
Talk and interact personally with fellow pilots, do not be afraid to ask pilot on property questions in person. It’s ok to not know it all. Asking questions build relationships! No question is silly, really good people on the line willing & geared to help.
*If your a Cadet and not on property yet, no need to worry yourself knowing the details of Bidding codes AVRS and DEC codes.*
Man, my IOE captains didn’t tell me anything about reserve proffering. Both were senior enough to probably not have been on reserve in quite a few years so it wsa probably best. Anyway, I will add these notes:
Asking in the crew room how to do something is good. BUT anytime someone in the crew rooms starts blowviating on contractual issues (and every question there seems to steer back to contractual issues), dive into the contract and verify. There’s a lot of BS that gets spread around in the crew rooms that’s simply not true, even from pilots that have been here a long time. I highly recommend getting very familiar with the reserve section of the CBA.
If you just want an easy way to proffer, get Quicktrade and read the front of the bid packet so you know the codes to enter for RAP and standby for your equipment and base. The trade features of the app will be more or less useless to you on reserve but it’s still the easiest way to proffer and keep track of the reserve list to see what everyone else is doing and also seeing what’s in open time for both the days you work (to predict what you might get assigned) or for picking up OT on your days off. You can do all this in mobilecci/FOS but Quicktrade is MUCH easier.
As someone else said, if you put a standy anywhere in your proffer, no matter the order, you will get the standy before the RAP even if you put the RAP first.
If you’re trying to fly, put yourself on the turnback list. In FOS, RF 100 VOL will instruct you how to do this.