Commercial required?

"BTIZ" wrote in message
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the FARs are Greek to everyone.. even the FAA

BT

Unfortunately, you are correct :-)

"BTIZ" wrote in message
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| the FARs are Greek to everyone.. even the FAA
|

What do you have against the Greeks?

C J Campbell wrote:


"BTIZ" wrote in message
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| the FARs are Greek to everyone.. even the FAA
|

What do you have against the Greeks?

Indeed. It's not as if being Greek helps one understand the FARs.

- Andrew

Wayne wrote:

If I had a friend that was commercial rated, could he fly while I took the
pictures?

Of course.

Would I have to pay him as am employee?

That's up to him.

Could we split costs, and have him to his necessary IFR stuff to
keep current and shoot some pictures while we are up?

Well, you can't be a very good safety pilot if you're taking photos, but there's
no reason you can't do his currency work and your photo work on the same flight.

George Patterson
If you're not part of the solution, you can make a lot of money prolonging
the problem.

"Wayne" wrote in message
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| Is there any way to do aerial photography and sell the pictures
without
| having a commercial license?

Well, if there isn't, then Barbara and Galen Rowell were violating the law.
You might want to read Barbara Rowell's book, "Flying South," if you ever
need inspiration, though I can't say much for the daredevil attitude
exhibited by some of the pilots throughout the book, or for Barbara's own
willingness to resign herself to going along so that she would not be left
behind.

The FAA is not going to say much if you sell pictures that you happen to
take while flying. You need a commercial license if your business is
specifically aerial photography -- that is, you tell people that you take
aerial photographs for a living and offer to do aerial photographic work. It
is kind of a fine line, but the distinction is whether you are making money
from your photographs or from your flying.

"Wayne" wrote in message ...
Is there any way to do aerial photography and sell the pictures without
having a commercial license? Seems to me there isn't, but I know people do
it. I was just wondering if there was a catch somewhere that would allow it
and if so, under what circumstances.

Thanks

Wayne

I was considering taking aerial photographs of my clients' businesses
and framing them for XMAS presents but was affraid this might be and
no no.

Also, my buddy wanted to take a picture of a business to use on their
commercial website (he was getting paid by the company to do this). I
of had planned on taking him along on a local flight to take the pics.
Is this legal? How does one go about proving they had already
planned the flight? (That is I didn't make a special flight just for
the purpose of him taking the pic...or is this even relavant?)

"Greg" wrote in message
om...
| "Wayne" wrote in message
...
| Is there any way to do aerial photography and sell the pictures without
| having a commercial license? Seems to me there isn't, but I know people
do
| it. I was just wondering if there was a catch somewhere that would allow
it
| and if so, under what circumstances.
|
| Thanks
|
| Wayne
|
| I was considering taking aerial photographs of my clients' businesses
| and framing them for XMAS presents but was affraid this might be and
| no no.

That should be all right.

|
| Also, my buddy wanted to take a picture of a business to use on their
| commercial website (he was getting paid by the company to do this). I
| of had planned on taking him along on a local flight to take the pics.
| Is this legal? How does one go about proving they had already
| planned the flight? (That is I didn't make a special flight just for
| the purpose of him taking the pic...or is this even relavant?)

Not relevant. You are not getting paid for the pictures or the flight.