I guess I am not understanding the "block" totals. I only do 1 day trips. At the bottom of the trip view there is a daily "CREDIT" and "BLOCK". And then right below that there is trip total line that also says "CREDIT" and "BLOCK". Both "credits" are the same, but the block is different on the two "Block" fields. (Trip is closed out). The first day I used APDL all legs were over block, so Block appeared to be the same as Credit. Except on the lower, trip total, it was less, and showed SCHEDULED (even thought the caption says BLOCK).
On the second day, one leg was over and one was under. The top BLOCK showed ACTUAL, and the bottom BLOCK still showed scheduled.
Now Here is where it gets weird: On day three, all legs were under block. Credit, being based on block or better, showed the CREDIT as the SCHEDULED BLOCK (i.e. minimum pay credit), but BLOCK, which I assumed was going to be ACTUAL, as it had been on the first 2 days, was actually ALSO the same as CREDIT. So it appears that BLOCK is never less than SCHEDULED, sometimes more, if you go over, but BLOCK only equals ACTUAL if ACTUAL IS EQUAL OR GREATER THAN SCHEDULED. So on day three, there is no where on the trip view page that displayed the actual flight time. I had to go to the legality page to find the actual flight time for the day.
I understand why it may be useful to have a column for CREDIT and also a column for BLOCK, where BLOCK always equals BLOCK or BETTER, in the case of a rig or guarantee, Credit would be adjusted based on BLOCK, but in that case we can't see ACTUAL anywhere on the trip page. So in reality, on the upper line, BLOCK is really "PAY BLOCK" (i.e. the value that pay adjustments are made based on). That is not the commonly understood definition of block. Block should be Actual OUT-IN.
Again, I'd like to see better use of the phone/ipad screen real estate. All the info should be on trip view. Like in the original APDL, each leg should have the scheduled below the actual times and totals (it could be made in a smaller font of a different color, i.e. blue). And on the totals line, CREDIT, ACTUAL, and ORIGINAL SCHEDULED totals should be displayed, in addition to TAFB. The original app even had info for approaches, nite, imc, crew names, etc. I'm not sure why we can't get the FO's name to display in the leg view. It just says FO. Also, can there be an option not to display hotel info for one day trips, or even to put a link to the hotel info, since it takes up a lot of screen space, and you only need it once a day when it's time to call the hotel. On the leg view, I'd like to see Actual ABOVE scheduled, since the ACTUAL is the one we need to change, and we should not have to scroll all the way down. Better yet, the leg view should just go away, and everything should be enterable by touching the fields on the trip view, as it was on the original APDL.