There is a DALPA guide to bidding in months where you are going to training. If any pilot does not understand the rules and how we are paid this is a must read document before you bid in a training month. Failure to do so can cost you thousands of Dollars!

^^^This^^^ is EXCELLENT advice.

Doing a little bit of homework and bidding properly can generate extra hours/$$$ too. It's well worth taking the time to figure it out - not really that complicated.

I understand how we are paid. I was curious why "PROJ" took a 15-hour wollop.

Anvik lodge in anvik Alaska! It's expensive, but you'll catch lots of fish and have lifetime memories with your son.

Well if not a mistake the 15 hour wallop would be part of how we are paid. To try and understand what happened we need a lot more information. Were you in training the full month. Was the training posted prior to the 5th in the month prior. Have you been converted and when. Is there a shadow bidding period?
If this is CQ then a whole different set of questions apply.

The question was answered in my previous post(s).

To summarize:

It turns out I'm doing a multi-bid period Initial Qual (7ER to 765.) I bid and was awarded a line next month on the 765 worth 81hrs. I checked my schedule yesterday and saw "NOE" for most of the month and the PROJ had dropped to 65. I called DALPA and was told I will be protected and paid the 81 hours and my schedule is a "work in progress," until TOE is actually scheduled.

Thanks to all who answered my questions.

I really do wish there was a complete guide to iCrew acronyms somewhere.

There is one - I have it. I think I got it off the old ALPA forum. It's got 1026 codes on it - it's a few years old, like the one for 727 seat filler, it most of it doesn't change. PM me.

Hear hear!

For a guy that hasn't been here that long he acts like Lee Moak shot his dog.

ONE Word...BAJA!! East Cape is the Best, but Cabo has a little more to offer. I like the piece and quiet of East Cape, Los Barriles. This is catching, not fishing. Board shorts, tank tops & Coronas in hand...OR Cold Weather gear and survival suits in AK for three times the cost.

Baja.

So you're ok with $270,000 of our dues money spent by ALPA on polyester ties for an unspecified purpose?

For crying out loud, they couldn't even show some class while wasting our money. At least get silk ties.

Unless that money wasn't really spent on ties...