Andrey Serbinenko wrote:
I know that books can be written about what FAA considers "commercial use"
requiring appropriate certification and what is "incidental", but I'm going
to ask this anyway. Does taking aerial pictures and then using them in
a commercial product constitute a commercial use? If I take a picture of
say a beautiful sunset on top at 7 thousand feet and then make a poster out
of it and sell it, would that violate my private certificate limitations?

That's a good question and one that is not straight forward at all. We
have a local guy here who started an aerial photography business. He
only had a private so he went down to the FSDO and asked if he was ok.
The FSDO told him he was good to go. Personally, it didn't sound very
"incidental" to his business to me but the FSDO said it was so go
figure.

-Robert