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At the top of each category it will say how many eligible pilots, and how many are in their early/may/must go months. Using December ATL320A (604/644) as an example, there are 8 pilots, with 7 as may go and 1 as must go. But there are 8 pairings available for bid, which means they'll all be going to training in December.

10-28-2019 | 03:10 PM

#198603

full of luv

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Cogf16

I'm trying to look at 4 day trips in Nov to swap with. Want to use NavBlu desktop but it seems like I can only view Dec trips. Is this correct and why, on Oct 27 can we not look at the NEXT MONTHS trips ? Using the search feature is so much easier than digging in the bid package. Thoughts?

If you use Micrew you see what is actually open, you can even limit results by #of days etc....

10-28-2019 | 04:28 PM

#198604

Herkflyr

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Quote:

Originally Posted by full of luv

If you use Micrew you see what is actually open, you can even limit results by #of days etc....

I think what he is saying is that he would like to see ALL of the 4-day trips in the November bid package, so as to submit a lot of blind swaps. Once CQ bidding is open in PBS, I believe that NavBlue no longer has the next months' trips available for viewing and sorting.

EasySwap is what he needs.

10-28-2019 | 04:42 PM

#198605

DWC CAP10 USAF

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John Bell sends out the bid package in a excel product....very easy to sort and filter.

Check out his website to get on the distro list.

10-28-2019 | 05:59 PM

#198606

Cogf16

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Quote:

Originally Posted by full of luv

If you use Micrew you see what is actually open, you can even limit results by #of days etc....

I want to do swaps with specific 4day trips that MAY come available, not just look at what's in Open time, which isnt much.

10-29-2019 | 04:21 AM

#198607

hockeypilot44

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Cogf16

I want to do swaps with specific 4day trips that MAY come available, not just look at what's in Open time, which isnt much.

I agree with you. It sucks. I find myself putting my swaps in as soon as schedule loaded into icrew to deal with this problem. Once next month schedules loaded, pretty much out of luck from what I can tell.

10-29-2019 | 04:25 AM

#198608

crewdawg

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If you want to keep last months trips in Navblue, don't let it synch when you log into Navblue. That should keep all the pairings in there. Of course if you had to bid for CQ, that may not help.