"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
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"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
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Can a commercial pilot be hired to rent a plane and fly a journalist
on
a
local flight for aerial photography, without meeting any operator
requirements? Or does that count as a sightseeing flight, invoking
the
part
135 drug-testing rules?



Aerial photography is one of the specified exceptions to the charter
rules,
as is flight instruction and such agricultural work as fish spotting or
pipeline patrol where there might be a 'passenger' on board. In each
case
the 'passenger' is considered a required crew member.

I see that it's an exception to part 119 (as per FAR 119.1e4iii), but I
wasn't sure if it still comes under the scope of 135.1a5, which applies
even
when part 119 doesn't.

Part 135.1 says what part 135 applies to. Aerial photography is not listed
there. Neither are any of the other exceptions that are listed in part 119,
except for sightseeing flights, and part 135 says those have to comply with
the drug testing requirements.