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11-15-2006, 07:50 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: KDUH
Posts: 88
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GSA POV Airplane Rate = $1.07
A lot of companies use the GSA rates, see the following table from GSA's website... http://tinyurl.com/sx4x
2006 POV Mileage Reimbursement Rates
GSA has established the mileage reimbursement rates for federal employees who use privately owned vehicles while on official travel.
The rates for the use of these modes of transportation, effective January 1, 2006, are as follows:
Privately Owned Vehicle Reimbursement Rates:
- Airplane .......... $1.07 per mile
- Automobile Rates:
44.5 cents per mile (if no Government Owned Vehicle available)
28.5 cents per mile (if Government Owned Vehicle available)
12.5 cents per mile (if committed to use Government Owned Vehicle)
- Motorcycle POV Rate ..... 30.5 cents per mile
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Opinions, information and comments are my own unless stated otherwise. They do not necessarily represent the direction/opinions of my employer.
Tony Kirk
Van's Aircraft Tech Support
Building RV-7 (N777RV Reserved)
RV-6A N57TK (sold)
First flight 9/5/05...
Sold in 2011 after 725 hours of pure joy!
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11-15-2006, 08:37 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Houston
Posts: 2,012
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I used to work with a guy who was a marketing rep for a big oil aviation fuel marketer prior to our meeting. Us talking about "better jobs" one day, I said something about flying my own plane around visiting the various locations he had to visit as a fuel marketing rep. As I recall, he said they had to fly commercial and rent a car. No private planes! What an endorsement for the product!
Thank a lawyer!!!!
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Bryan
Houston
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11-16-2006, 12:23 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Posts: 146
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Here are the JTR guidelines that my company uses...
https://secureapp2.hqda.pentagon.mil...aqpovpast.html
Looks like the same schedule as the GSA site.
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Joe Graham - VAF#569
RV-7 (N7TZ Reserved)
Left Wing in Progress
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11-16-2006, 07:10 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Northern California, USA
Posts: 537
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Originally Posted by n700jl
My company policy forbids travel by private aircraft but my boss is for it. The strange thing is we are an aviation company!
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We are a UAV company. Our CEO was initially opposed to it, too, and even issued a policy forbidding it, until someone took it upon himself to put a draft policy together that protected the company's interests. With a few revisions, it was approved.
Company policy does not come down from Mt. Sinai engraved on stone tablets. I'm sure that at huge companies like L-M it's very hard if not impossible to change it, but at smaller companies, it's not that hard.
Not only does a GA-friendly policy help move people around efficiently, it keeps the pilot/employees happy, and for most companies, replacing people who quit is a big deal. It's easier (i.e. cheaper) to keep the ones you have.
If they won't listen to you, quit and go work somewhere where they will! An employee who has enough stick-to-it-ness to build his own airplane is someone worth keeping...if your employer doesn't see that, they're not worthy of YOU.
OK, I am now dismounting from my high horse...
Cheers,
Martin
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Martin Gomez
Redwood City, CA
"My RV-7 is a composite airplane: it's made of aluminum, blood, sweat, and money"
RV-7 Slider QB
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11-16-2006, 05:00 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: McCordsville IN
Posts: 277
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wow
Hey that was great! you made a lot of valuable points. I have put together a power point presentation to sell this to upper management.
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11-16-2006, 06:33 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Northern California, USA
Posts: 537
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Originally Posted by n700jl
I have put together a power point presentation to sell this to upper management.
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'course, if you get fired for stirring the pot, you didn't hear it from me!
Good luck,
Martin
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Martin Gomez
Redwood City, CA
"My RV-7 is a composite airplane: it's made of aluminum, blood, sweat, and money"
RV-7 Slider QB
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11-16-2006, 06:56 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Willits,Ca
Posts: 60
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Business trips in the RV
If you are looking to travel via small airplane for busniess I have only one thing to say "Have time to spare go by air"
Marvin
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11-16-2006, 07:08 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 848
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In the mid 90's my wifes uncle was a fair haired boy at Merrill Lynch and he did a lot of traveling on company business. He went out and found an airplane that he liked and bought it. He then leased it to Merrill Lynch with a clause that he was the only person that could fly it. It took less than two years for the company to fully pay for his plane which was something he was quite proud of. In the mean time he was able to do his trips on his schedule and enjoy the trips to boot.
Best,
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Bryan 9A Sold
Beech S35, and daydreams of a Super 8 or a Rocket starting to take over my brain.
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11-16-2006, 07:36 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 5,685
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Flying is risky
Scares the heck out of noble institutions like the California Institute of Technology who runs the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as Federally Funded Reasearch Facility for NASA. Employees are strictly forbiden from flying in private planes for business even though NASA permits it. I requested a waiver because I owned my own plane and I flew it to work in LA every day (or night on occassion), I was instrument rated and around 3,000 hours in the very plane I would fly on short business trips. It was denied and the chief legal council said in a message to me if something happened to me there would be no insurance coverage provided by Caltech. Do you see the mirror message here? That was fine with me so I lied and flew. The message is, if you reach the end of the appeals and rationalization process without success and really want to fly, you can pay your own way accept all the risks and just do it. LIfe is a gamble.
Bob Axsom
Last edited by Bob Axsom : 11-16-2006 at 07:41 PM.
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11-16-2006, 07:37 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Northern California, USA
Posts: 537
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As opposed to the airlines?
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Originally Posted by Marvin
If you are looking to travel via small airplane for busniess I have only one thing to say "Have time to spare go by air"
Marvin
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Quite right...the best way to travel is by business jet. Sadly, I don't have one...and the company's brass has priority over the corporate turboprop. So it's either fly myself in a little single-engine airplane or experience the joy of airline travel. Sometimes I get delayed, admittedly, but I try to give myself a little "time to spare," as you put it.
If I had better writing skills I'd try to make these rhyme:
"Wanna show off your socks? Take the airlines."
"Want your luggage to visit Miami without you? Change planes at Atlanta!"
"Whenever your meeting is, we can't get you there until it's over."
"We may be crowded, but at least we're late."
"The weather here and at your destination is perfect. Your airplane, however, is elsewhere at the moment."
"Sorry you're all packed into this airless aluminum tube...to make up for that, here are some peanuts to give everyone gas."
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Martin Gomez
Redwood City, CA
"My RV-7 is a composite airplane: it's made of aluminum, blood, sweat, and money"
RV-7 Slider QB
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