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I am curious how people can drop trips when the entirely of the trip falls over black RES coverage days. A trip which had been a Q trip recently became actual open time over 4 black days, I looked at the pilot history in icrew and the reason was DROT which I'm pretty sure is a plain drop, not IVD or APD. The RES availability for the days of the trip are 14/11, 18/15, 20/15, and 16/11 (REQ/Avail). There was no other movement on that day, so it's not like there was a sudden rush of open time trips that were picked up which gave this pilot the window of opportunity to drop. This is a dropped 4 day trip that covers 4 black days.

The trip had a Q next to it since the PBS run on the 20th and it only recently became actual open time. I thought I had a basic understanding of how PCS works but I've seen stuff like this happen a few times and don't understand why, can anybody help explain this? My only lingering thought is maybe DROT is some kind of chief pilot input since there is no help button to list what the codes stand for. Thanks.

FAR conflict, swap, medical drop, company business, cp drop ect..
Just pull the pilots schedule and see what it says.

It could certainly be any of the reasons you listed above, but since the pilot had been trying to get rid of it anyway I thought the most likely reason was a PD. Is there a listing somewhere of all the codes?

I don't know why but I always find it a bit creepy when unknown people pull my schedule so I never do it to anybody else.

The company tried to block pilot access to other pilots schedules. We won a grievance over the issue. The basis was insuring contract compliance. You should have no issue pulling his schedule. If guys pull mine I appreciate that they are insuring the company is following the contract.
DROT means dropped to open time. To get the reason you will have to view the schedule.

TY for both the reason and perspective on viewing schedules.

It's possible there was a significant life event that he was trying to drop the trip for as well and the CPO helped him get rid of it due to that reason.

Payback Days?


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Cannot drop a trip with PB days if the reserve coverage is not there.

I’m guessing a CP drop for personal reasons.

Denny

I was thinking perhaps the same 25% threshold as for APD or IVD. There isn't a lot of clarity on how the payback days work. Seems like it's at the whim of the schedulers as to how you can use them.


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Yeah....No. It’s just like doing a regular PD. Reserve coverage has to be positive for every day of payback day usage.

About the only place that talks about PB day usage is the Scheduling Reference Handbook put out by Dalpa.

Denny