This paper was put out because of the misguided conclusion to the Hadrians wall crash.
I say misguided because if you go through the last seconds and the conditions on location and like myself are filming 90% on your flights you will come to the conclusion that you had a inexperienced filming pilot turning down wind at low speed around sloping ground.
The BBC have made ground on having an approved list but only for full BBC productions.
I believe that the company they gave the job was approved but could not do it on the day,so they sub contracted it out to a non approved company.
Many BBC productions are produced by other companies that do not need to use the approved list.
This leads to those companies using anyone they want which I can assure you includes non AOC individuals where the pilot has a PPL(h) which makes a farce of the whole eyewash of BBC approved list.
On the subject of mounts there are many formats that fit the requirements of the production companies.
BBC Digi Beta and 16mm in the main.
Commercials 35mm
Feature films 35mm very rarely HD.
Cheap productions for corporate videos digi beta or even straight foreward high street digi cam.
TV drama mostly film.
There are only a few gyro ball mounts available for film and most budgets can't afford them so you are back to hand held or side mounts etc.
By the way nose mounts are extremely limited and only work on particular shots like following a car.
Yes HD is now on it's way but as far as hollywood is concerned,look at how many jobs will be lost if they drop 35mm.
Getting back to the original thread the best way to resolve this issue is to have some form of filming rating,I'm not suggesting that a flight filming general views at 1500 feet would require a pilot to have a rating but when it gets down to 20 meter excemptions the pilot needs to know what he is about.