Originally Posted by jack
Help me.
You put in 5 standing bids for example. Youre first choice you dont get. Does the system automatically look at your second choice or does it go to the next guy on the list, then come back to you?
Does passover pay come when you enter your second year, or when the guy behind you gets his second year pay?
For the standing bid system it looks at your second choice. What you are thinking of VTO line construction.
If your first request for VTO flying is unavailable the system then proceeds to the next person on the VTO list and looks at their first request. After all individual first requests have been looked at and either honored or rejected, the system comes back to the top of the list and starts over again. Ya, ya, I know. I had the same thoughts when it was explained to me by an assistant chief pilot.
Passover pay hasn't been paid in the past until you (the passed over pilot) complete quals in the airplane you were passed over for. First thing- you have to bid and be able to hold the seat you were passed over for. Once the junior guy checks out (fully line qualed) the passover pay clock begins. When you finally get a training date and get yourself qualed, they cut you a check. That's how it worked when I checked out as a captain a few years ago. They cut my check (after some discussion of when my pass over clock should have started) as soon as I took my company qual ride.