It is not illegal for a professional photographer to hire a private pilot (not commercially licensed) to fly over a location to take photos. The FAA does not consider this a commercial act, but the same FAA tried to say that a drone pilot/photographer/videographer who received a fee for...
NC just outlawed anyone using a drone for pay while photographing. The law went into effect Oct 1 2014. I always thought taking photographs was considered a first amendment right. I guess a journalist could be outlawed from reporting if he or she was compensated for their work. This is...
When I first started flying my Phantom I had a fly-away. My bad, I did not wait for green light confirmation of sat lock and off it went. So I would have to say from my experience it wasn't a fly away it was just plain old operator error!
I do a lot of real estate photography and thus has spun up next to all different types of power lines. "Knock on wood" – so far I have not experienced any difficulties with power lines or wireless phone towers. Good luck.
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