Guys I have been planning on taking my commercial test. I had hopes of earning some dollars using my drone. But a friend who is already established as a drone pilot for hire and has had his license for months gave me some disappointing news.
He did a presentation to two different large real estate companies who had reached out to him for photography work.
One just said. "No thanks" with no further explanation. The other told him that one of their employees had bought a drone and they were just going to use him. They actually asked this guy to train their employee.
My question is whether this is legal or not? My understanding was that anything that results in revenue has to be done under a license. I see people advertising to do drone photography on Craigs List for example, and they say, " I am selling you photographs, but I am not charging for the drone work". I feel that this is also illegal. Just a way to let people who won't do the right thing to skirt the laws. And probably eventually create problems for all law abiding pilots.
What do you guys think?
He did a presentation to two different large real estate companies who had reached out to him for photography work.
One just said. "No thanks" with no further explanation. The other told him that one of their employees had bought a drone and they were just going to use him. They actually asked this guy to train their employee.
My question is whether this is legal or not? My understanding was that anything that results in revenue has to be done under a license. I see people advertising to do drone photography on Craigs List for example, and they say, " I am selling you photographs, but I am not charging for the drone work". I feel that this is also illegal. Just a way to let people who won't do the right thing to skirt the laws. And probably eventually create problems for all law abiding pilots.
What do you guys think?