"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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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.

Right, I'm just unsure where the boundary between sightseeing and aerial
photography lies. If someone hires me to fly and take pictures myself,
that's obviously aerial photography. But if someone hires me to fly *them*
to take pictures, it seems less clear. If that always counts as photography
rather than sightseeing, then the part-135 sightseeing rules could be
circumvented entirely as long as the sightseer brings a camera and wants to
take photos. That's probably not what the FAA intends, but who knows?

--Gary