IVDs plus PDs plus X day moves and PVPP got me 13 days in a row off in August and 26 days in a row off including 2x weeks vacation in September. I'm about 80% in category, NYC 7ER

Which I will spend driving from Crawfordsville, Indiana, home to Jersey to CLT to DFW to LAS and back home to Jersey driving my toy hauler bringing two European racers who qualified for the 3 races of the SuperMotocross finals to the three rounds.

It was, I kid you not, my wife's idea.

If any APC people are going to the SMX races, get a pit pass and stop by. I'll have beer in the fridge. Might even be good beer. (I can't drink during race day)

 

yup! I forgot about that. Anything SEP-MAR not SEP-DEC.

 

This is incorrect and has been corrected above, but the easy way to remember it is like this - The true "Superpower" of a PB day, in your bank, for Reserve Pilots is that it can "split" reserve coverage blocks. Just to be clear there are some other hoops to jump through to make this happen:

*Coverage must be positive unless you want to use an APD, IVD etc.

*It has to be a "banked" PB day. PB days earned earlier in the month are automatically placed on your next day on reserve, so you need the GS that earns PB day to be at a time in the month when you will not have enough on call days to absorb all your PB days. PB days that are not automatically place on your line go into your bank and are used at your discretion.

Some Pilots will try to "roll thunder" earning PB days all throughout the month starting at the beginning and others will strategically shoot for banked PB days. Which strategy you choose to pursue will determine how you bid because both of these bids would look very, very different.

Scoop

 

This is a NB/WB disconnect. For NBs a PD can be placed in the middle of 3 or 5 days of reserve creating 2 nearly unusable RES day groups. You do need blue coverage. NBs save your PBs for better effect.

 

I mean while it’s true that WB pilots can use PB days to break up otherwise unbreakable blocks, they also have the opportunity to save and cash in PBs for much, much higher pay than NB pilots.

 

Thank you for this. Thought I was crazy for a minute (NB).

 

The problem I'm having is finding someone with enough hours on their schedule to pick up a 20 hr + trip. Looking at the wide report, no one senior to me has the specific calendar days off and/or the pick-up available to take my trip.

Only option I can come up with is to drop it and try to pick it back up myself.

Any suggestions out there?

 

who says they gave to be senior to you?
look for RES+VAC wide schedules

 

Needs to be a lineholder to pick it up, but otherwise good points on seniority and vacation.

 

Find someone with a juicy trip already on their schedule, then take it from them with their permission (swap with friends). Start the process and then on the last WS pickup exchange, they just keep the trip.