open time q trips
02-25-2018 | 06:22 PM
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02-26-2018 | 06:34 PM
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02-27-2018 | 02:41 PM
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A couple non-exact answers here...to paraphrase:
There are two separate ways to drop a trip (without considering APDs/IVDs).
One is via a Personal Drop. After you put in your request, when the PCS runs, if the reserve coverage allows it, boom, the trip is gone. It's all automated.
If the reserve coverage doesn't allow it, it falls into open flying to let someone pick it up. It becomes a "qualified" or Q trip because if someone wants to swap-with-the-pot, the rules are different than for a normal open time trip. If someone wants to pick it up, they have to be under the white slip limit.
This is the important part...your request will run on every PCS cycle until it hits the expiration time you put in. Even if the day(s) are showing below the reserves required, leave the request in, because there is always some flux in the reserve levels when the PCS runs. It might be good when it gets to your request.
The swap board is entirely separate and is not connected to the PCS system. If you want to drop a trip via the SB, you have to put it there separately. The bonus is pilots can pick up off the SB no matter their credit (no limit), so you'll have more luck getting rid of a trip there, but unlike the PCS, it's not automated, and you have to roll the dice someone wants to pick it up.
For the highest chances of dropping the trip, you want to put in a PD AND list the trip as a drop on the SB.
Another hint: you can't PD trips for the subsequent month until the next month's PCS cycles start, which is the 20th of the current month.
You can list trips on the SB as soon as they're loaded into DBMS a couple days after the PBS awards. It gives you a 5-6 day head start.
If you REALLY need out of a trip, you can use APDs or IVDs, but that's a whole other thread.
Nu
There are two separate ways to drop a trip (without considering APDs/IVDs).
One is via a Personal Drop. After you put in your request, when the PCS runs, if the reserve coverage allows it, boom, the trip is gone. It's all automated.
If the reserve coverage doesn't allow it, it falls into open flying to let someone pick it up. It becomes a "qualified" or Q trip because if someone wants to swap-with-the-pot, the rules are different than for a normal open time trip. If someone wants to pick it up, they have to be under the white slip limit.
This is the important part...your request will run on every PCS cycle until it hits the expiration time you put in. Even if the day(s) are showing below the reserves required, leave the request in, because there is always some flux in the reserve levels when the PCS runs. It might be good when it gets to your request.
The swap board is entirely separate and is not connected to the PCS system. If you want to drop a trip via the SB, you have to put it there separately. The bonus is pilots can pick up off the SB no matter their credit (no limit), so you'll have more luck getting rid of a trip there, but unlike the PCS, it's not automated, and you have to roll the dice someone wants to pick it up.
For the highest chances of dropping the trip, you want to put in a PD AND list the trip as a drop on the SB.
Another hint: you can't PD trips for the subsequent month until the next month's PCS cycles start, which is the 20th of the current month.
You can list trips on the SB as soon as they're loaded into DBMS a couple days after the PBS awards. It gives you a 5-6 day head start.
If you REALLY need out of a trip, you can use APDs or IVDs, but that's a whole other thread.
Nu
02-27-2018 | 03:51 PM
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A couple non-exact answers here...to paraphrase:
There are two separate ways to drop a trip (without considering APDs/IVDs).
One is via a Personal Drop. After you put in your request, when the PCS runs, if the reserve coverage allows it, boom, the trip is gone. It's all automated.
If the reserve coverage doesn't allow it, it falls into open flying to let someone pick it up. It becomes a "qualified" or Q trip because if someone wants to swap-with-the-pot, the rules are different than for a normal open time trip. If someone wants to pick it up, they have to be under the white slip limit.
This is the important part...your request will run on every PCS cycle until it hits the expiration time you put in. Even if the day(s) are showing below the reserves required, leave the request in, because there is always some flux in the reserve levels when the PCS runs. It might be good when it gets to your request.
The swap board is entirely separate and is not connected to the PCS system. If you want to drop a trip via the SB, you have to put it there separately. The bonus is pilots can pick up off the SB no matter their credit (no limit), so you'll have more luck getting rid of a trip there, but unlike the PCS, it's not automated, and you have to roll the dice someone wants to pick it up.
For the highest chances of dropping the trip, you want to put in a PD AND list the trip as a drop on the SB.
Another hint: you can't PD trips for the subsequent month until the next month's PCS cycles start, which is the 20th of the current month.
You can list trips on the SB as soon as they're loaded into DBMS a couple days after the PBS awards. It gives you a 5-6 day head start.
If you REALLY need out of a trip, you can use APDs or IVDs, but that's a whole other thread.
Nu
There are two separate ways to drop a trip (without considering APDs/IVDs).
One is via a Personal Drop. After you put in your request, when the PCS runs, if the reserve coverage allows it, boom, the trip is gone. It's all automated.
If the reserve coverage doesn't allow it, it falls into open flying to let someone pick it up. It becomes a "qualified" or Q trip because if someone wants to swap-with-the-pot, the rules are different than for a normal open time trip. If someone wants to pick it up, they have to be under the white slip limit.
This is the important part...your request will run on every PCS cycle until it hits the expiration time you put in. Even if the day(s) are showing below the reserves required, leave the request in, because there is always some flux in the reserve levels when the PCS runs. It might be good when it gets to your request.
The swap board is entirely separate and is not connected to the PCS system. If you want to drop a trip via the SB, you have to put it there separately. The bonus is pilots can pick up off the SB no matter their credit (no limit), so you'll have more luck getting rid of a trip there, but unlike the PCS, it's not automated, and you have to roll the dice someone wants to pick it up.
For the highest chances of dropping the trip, you want to put in a PD AND list the trip as a drop on the SB.
Another hint: you can't PD trips for the subsequent month until the next month's PCS cycles start, which is the 20th of the current month.
You can list trips on the SB as soon as they're loaded into DBMS a couple days after the PBS awards. It gives you a 5-6 day head start.
If you REALLY need out of a trip, you can use APDs or IVDs, but that's a whole other thread.
Nu
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