On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 13:58:35 GMT, "Gary Drescher"
wrote:

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?


It's not clear to me that the drug testing of Part 135 applies to
sightseeing tours for little airplanes. Part 119 exempts little
airplane sightseeing from Part 135; the implication to me is that the
sightseeing flights in Part 135 must be only for big airplanes. I
could find no letters of interp for this.