Originally Posted by
full of luv
My understanding is the "golden days" bid in Icrew is binding, but it only protects up to 5 days.
On top of that you can go into PBS and input a "training bid" which you can ask for whatever you want, ie train/don't train, days to avoid, periods to avoid. Of course the PBS bid seems almost purely advisory although when I use it I seem to get weekends off which was my main goal anyway. You can use PBS to request or avoid all sorts of things in your training bid.
Thanks to all the replies, I was able to bid for my December golden days. I expect I will get them as XX days on RES since they are nowhere near the holidays, I scheduled my HPDE figuring early to mid December would be easy to get my requested days off. Thanks for this PBS tip as well, I would LOVE to train as close to the holidays as possible since I’m guaranteed a trip if I’m not in the sim.