After my Navy career I started a second career as a Corporate Pilot (I had earned an Airline Transport Certificate and all Flight Instructors certificates while in the Navy). I flew as a line captain for a large paper company for about one year, went on to another smaller company as chief pilot and in 1977 was hired by GEICO DIRECT to start their Flight department. I flew a King Air 200 for the first seven years and then a Learjet 35 until I was forced out of the cockpit in 1992 due to a medical problem. I remained at GEICO as Director of Transportation until July of 1996. The Flight Department, all airline/hotel/rental cars and the companies fleet of 1500 vehicles were my responsibility.