Originally Posted by
contrails
Yeah I have somewhat employed that strategy in the past as well. But my category doesn't have anything like a 10hr day on day one. Just 6-7 hours is about it, so I'll probably just use 4 PB days to get one good 23hr 4-day dropped with pay. I won't be trying to pickup on the dropped days anyway, it's for traveling.
Problem is, coverage lately isn't reliably adequate at this point to do the strategy you've mentioned.
Sounds like a good strategy....4 day worth 23hrs is just about 6hrs per PB day, certainly more than the 3:30 vacation credit you'd otherwise receive.