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Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 22:46:55 -0400
From: m w grossmann <hosting@select-ware.com>
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HLAviation wrote:
> 
> >The FAR's state that a private pilot may fly for compensation or hire when
> >the flight is incidental to the trip and the pilot does not carry any
> >passengers or cargo for compensation.

"For compensation?" Maybe we're reading it differently. Ass I saw it,
the pilot may SPLIT the costs with the pax.

 
> The Company can pick up the tab and pay you your normal wage to fly to another
> city and say attend a meeting ,you can even take coworkers with you because you
> are being paid to travel to a meeting which you would go to anyway and they
> would pay for it no matter what form of trans you take. In other words your
> getting paid for going to the meeting not for flying there.  Besides youd never
> get busted for it anyway, the FAA is so understaffed they haven't got the man
> power to swet the small stuff.

Last part first:
NEVER EVER EVER count on the understaffing of the FAA to save you from
your violations of the FARs. Or are you willing to gamble your ticket?
The Tombstone Agency just luvvvvs to make examples out of GA pilots.

Second, as I both read it and had it explained to me, I can fly to a
meeting with a few "fellow accountants" and we can SPLIT the cost of the
travel (even more ambiguity arises if I own the plane). But I don't see
it allowing the company to reimburse me, explicitly or otherwise. We get
back to that other thread in r.a.piloting concerning taking jumpers up
for fun and/or profit (you *do* profit since you get flight time and
experience).

If I don't have this right, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me. It's cheaper
for me to fly my wife down to DC from NYC (and I go with my wife
whenever possible) than to send just her on the Shuttle (and she gets
free digs at my parents' house, saving the company even more money). Can
I start flying her down and handing the FBO receipt to her employer?

Cheers-

m w grossmann
