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DVA7238
Captain, B747-400
OLP

Joined on April 20 2009
Double Century Club
50 State Club

Spences Bridge, BC Canada

267 legs, 515.2 hours
78 legs, 159.8 hours online
263 legs, 504.8 hours ACARS
2 legs, 3.8 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 20 2009 13:18 ET by Robert Ross

I don't really see the point of flight assignments. Could someone explain the difference between an assignment and an ordinary flight?

DVA4346
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP

Joined on April 19 2007
Globetrotter
50 State Club
Millennium Club
Three Million Mile Club
Online Nine Century

Delft, Zuid-Holland Netherlands

1,227 legs, 6,943.0 hours
906 legs, 5,459.3 hours online
1,187 legs, 6,710.7 hours ACARS
50 legs, 141.3 hours event
152 legs dispatched, 147.8 hours

Posted onPost created on September 20 2009 13:19 ET by Luis Gambetta

If you have one and the same flight isnt there the next day you can fly it with the .draft command on ACARS they will stay in your logbook for about 14 days

Luis Gambetta

Senior Captain, B777-200

Posted onPost created on September 20 2009 20:55 ET by Robert Ross

What does this mean? "If you have one and the same flight isnt there the next day you can fly it with the .draft command"

DVA1933
Senior Captain, B727-200

Joined on September 19 2004
Triple Century Club

Monterrey, NL Mexico

357 legs, 860.4 hours
72 legs, 132.3 hours online
255 legs, 668.3 hours ACARS
1 legs, 1.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 20 2009 21:51 ET by David Eugenio Gomez

The schedule is updated daily.

A flight can be there one day, and the next day it's gone. As you know, if the flight isn't in the schedule at the time it was flown, it'll be rejected.

If you spot a flight one day, and feel like fying it later, you can save it as a Flight Assignment, so that it'll be available for you to fly it within the next 14 days, even if it dissappears from the schedule the day you fly it. This way, it gets approved.

David Eugenio Gomez (DVA1933)

Posted onPost created on September 21 2009 10:20 ET by Robert Ross

Thanks, I did not realize the flights were changed that often.

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