Legalities of Aerial Imaging

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Need some advice:

1: CSEL rents a plane
2: Flies solo
3: Take pictures of an object on the ground
4: Sell said images to a buyer

What are the legalities of this flight?
1: Is it entirely under Part91?
2: Does it need to adhere to the 25SM rule?
3: If the rental is paid entirely from pilot's own funds can they
charge $ for the picture without breaking FAR?

Thanks....:insane:
 
At the risk of sounding snide, read 119.1
"(e) Except for operations when common carriage is not involved conducted with airplanes having a passenger-seat configuration of 20 seats or more, excluding any required crewmember seat, or a payload capacity of 6,000 pounds or more, this part does not apply to—
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(iii) Aerial photography or survey;"
 
No sweat, but yeah - that's mostly why I'm posting the question. The FAR basically say "its not covered by 119" which tells me something else covers it and regulates it....but what?
 
sdfcvoh said:
No sweat, but yeah - that's mostly why I'm posting the question. The FAR basically say "its not covered by 119" which tells me something else covers it and regulates it....but what?
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Part 91.

And as to your first post, I'm pretty sure you'd be ok with how you described it.

Also what 25sm rule?
 
z987k said:
Also what 25sm rule?
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That was my question.

On the rest. Yep, it's fine. And it doesn't matter who pays for the rental.

"I want to hire you to take photos of my house from the air."

You advertise the service, your fee is based on your time, the cost of the aircraft, the processing, etc of the photos and a nice profit. All okay with a commercial pilot certificate. And all Part 91 (since none of the other Parts that talk about certain types of operations applies)
 
One consideration would be whether this CSEL's renters insurance covers this type of operation. My guess would be that it doesn't.
 
adk said:
One consideration would be whether this CSEL's renters insurance covers this type of operation. My guess would be that it doesn't.
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I've always wondered if insurance is required on airplanes like it is on cars.
 
MidlifeFlyer said:
It's not required by the FAA.
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I was awfully sure it wasn't but wasn't sure if there was a rule elsewhere. Of course, there are probably not a ton of people out there that don't either have a loan of some sort on it, which would dictate insurance, or operating out of an airport that requires it.
 
z987k said:
I was awfully sure it wasn't but wasn't sure if there was a rule elsewhere. Of course, there are probably not a ton of people out there that don't either have a loan of some sort on it, which would dictate insurance, or operating out of an airport that requires it.
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True. Lenders will require hull insurance to protect the value of the collateral. Some airports will require liability insurance in a certain amount for based aircraft.

It's probably not mandatory on a governmental level because of the statistics that apply to the group when compared to drivers: less people, higher incomes, more likely to voluntarily insure, accidents that affect hull more significantly than liability....
 
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