Bid Buddy Feature Summary

Bid Buddy Feature Summary

Bid Buddy offers an exceptional, feature-rich environment for quickly constructing the "perfect bid". And once you've bid, it offers a continuous flight calendar with numerous options and printing styles. The best way to familiarize yourself with the easy and powerful capability of Bid Buddy is to download the program for your free trial. Click on the links to see an actual

image of each screen. Click here for the top 10 reasons to register Bid Buddy.

Flight Calendar

The flight calendar is the working hub of Bid Buddy. It contains your actual schedule and trip list for the bid month you select. You can easily put all of your trips and scheduled activities on the flight calendar. You can also put any other activity you choose on the calendar simply by typing in the box for that day. You can generate an html version of the Flight Calendar which you can email or post to a web site. You can also transfer your FC info into the MS Outlook calendar in one of two formats. This allows you to then transfer your FC into your PALM Treo phone or PDA.

Pattern Analysis Screen

The Pattern Analysis Screen gives you unprecedented power to quickly find the trips you desire. You simply select the criteria that define the trips you want to fly and select [Show Matching Patterns] to view the results. The PA screen provides immediate feedback on the number of matching patterns when you change any selection criteria. The selection criteria have also been designed to closely match ATLAS BID.

When you select [Show Matching Patterns], BB activates the Pattern Display Screen. It is on this screen that you "Bookmark" and "Rank" the patterns you want the BB Schedule Generator to consider. You can also select (or limit) the trip operating days you want the schedule generator to use.

Layover Analysis Screen

The Bid Buddy Layover Analysis Screen is where you can find out about all layovers in the pattern list. You can visually see on which days the selected layover occurs, and can further refine by layover arrival time and layover length.

Schedule Generator

The ultimate power of Bid Buddy lies in the schedule generator (SG). The BB SG will generate every possible combination (up to 999) of legal schedules from "Bookmarked" trips within the hourly range you specify. The new Eighth Generation SG uses segment-by-segment legality checking, the same as CARMEN so that every and only CARMEN legal schedules are generated. You can also define SG directives which further refine the schedules BB creates. Once you generate schedules, you can "Bookmark" and "Rank" the schedules you like, and ultimately generate an ATLAS compatible bid script corresponding with the schedules you "Bookmarked" and "Ranked". You also have the option of manually creating schedules merely by dragging-and-dropping them on the schedule generator. After you have bookmarked schedules, you simply click [Gen Bid Script] to generate your bid script. You can even print it out in a color-coded format as shown below. A new SG feature allows you to drag a trip you really like onto the SG Calendar, and then have BB build all possible schedules (from other trips you have bookmarked) that accommodate that "fixed" trip. This gives you incredible flexibility to experiment with different schedule building scenarios based upon trips you know you can hold.

Top 10 reasons to register Bid Buddy

10) You already have a riding lawnmower, a snow blower, and a plasma TV.... Bid Buddy must be next.

9) You spent good money on that fancy laptop. Now put it to work with the worlds most powerful bidding software!

8) Your wife wants a flight calendar that actually looks good on the fridge and that she can understand.

7) Perfect knowledge is a beautiful thing because it leads to perfect decisions.

6) The more Bid Buddy users there are, the more leverage to get direct bidscript transfer into ATLAS Bid.

5) Bid Buddy gets better every month and all updates are FREE.

4) It's tax deductible so the REAL cost is 40% less for most of you.

3) The smartest pilots use Bid Buddy.

2) You can now transfer your Bid Buddy Flight Calendar into your Palm Treo Phone.

1) Bid Buddy makes the bidding great!!!