"Bob Gardner" wrote in message news:ncf1b.220551$Ho3.28819@sccrnsc03...

Back in the 60s I owned a 175, and my employer was delighted at the way I
covered my territory and reimbursed me at the automobile rate. It took only
one trip, with a fellow employee on board, that ran into severe weather
problems and caused delays, to have my employer pull the plug on using my
own airplane. I wasn't there much longer.

The Army would reimburse private airtravel at the POV (automotive) rates provided
we got our division chief to sign off on it being "more advantageous to the government"
than other modes of travel. Actually, you needed the same sign off to drive your
car on government business. Of course, it wasn't hard to prove that personal car
travel was more advantageous as the alternative was to go out and rent a car
instead (We used to do this).