Getting around company insurance policy

No problem.

I've been doing it for forty years in one venue or another. Tell the powers
that be that you are "driving" this trip. (And don't tell them what you are
"driving".)

When you get back, MapQuest the mileage between your home and the meeting
location. Multiply by the company allowed auto mileage or the IRS rate,
whichever gives you a better number. Put the mileage on your expense
report...and buck the sucker up with all the parking fees and other incidentals
that you can dream up. Since you are already back and safe, nobody is going to
question what you "drove" to the meeting. You will find that it will come
pretty darned close to the airplane rental cost.

If anybody questions why you are driving instead of flying, plead
airlineophobia. (There is an actual clinical name for fear of flying on an
airliner, but I don't remember what it is. Anybody else help here?)

If you DON'T get back safe, the company is harmless in that they expressly
forbade you to fly. The aircraft insurance company can't bitch, in that the
travel was incidental to your business...you weren't paid to FLY, you were paid
to MEET.

No problem.

Jim





-...Our company handbook explicitly states that the use of private aircraft
-is not allowed. So I asked if I could get a waiver and the answer back from
-the insurance company was a "Big No".
-As far as the FAA is concerned, it's fine for a PP to get to a place of work
-this way.

Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com