On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 09:15:46 -0400, "Jack Wynn Jr"
wrote:

You absolutely cannot MAKE any money from it
unless your a commercial rated pilot. In other words, if the total cost of
flight A was $129.38 and your client wrote you a check for $129.38 then your
legal. But if he mistakenly wrote it for $129.39 then your illegal.
Unless you have a commercial cert.

That is absolutely NOT the case in the situation cited.

There are specific regulations allowing what the OP proposed.

For example:

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61.113 (b) A private pilot may, for compensation or hire, act as pilot in
command of an aircraft in connection with any business or employment if:

(1) The flight is only incidental to that business or employment;
and
(2) The aircraft does not carry passengers or property for
compensation or hire.
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Flying yourself to a business meeting, or sales calls, where the business
is essentially unrelated to aviation, is specifically allowed as a
situation in which you can be compensated as a pilot.



Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA)