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On May 15, 8:37*pm, wrote:
Can a person take pictures of properties from a private airplane and
charge for doing it?
What kind of license or permits do they need to do this?

Its very FSDO dependant. Our local FSDO approved a guy to do just this
as long as it wasn't the primary purpose of his business. In his
description it didn't sound like his business did much else. In
anycase, in the end it will be up to the FSDO to decide if they think
you are doing something wrong.


The OP said "charge for doing it (taking pictures)".
This is not the same as selling a picture one took while flying on a
pleasure or business trip, and could very well be interpreted as "holding
out" or offering for hire services as a pilot, which would definitely
require a CPL. Not to mention the fact that the private or recreational
pilot's insurance company would certainly take a very dim view of his
sollicitation to take pictures for hire when he's supposed to be devoting
all his attention to flying the airplane.

It would indeen be interesting to see that list of "opinions" as that's
about as close as we seem to be able to get to hard facts with the
FAA.The case mentioned certainly does not satisfy the "would have gone
anyway" criterion, and my guess is that it's probably a CPL required
activity.