It's good to see you around Si - hope things are looking up mate.
You log P1 as PIC - You are accompanied by a CFI who is also taking pictures of boats - either on lakes or out at sea. He will tell you what he wants to see, you will take him there. You will pay $100ph to the CFI on behalf of Tom McDermott, owner of Boatpix. He is only really intersted in people with serious hours to build and quickly. You can get 16 hours in on a summer weekend when the boats are all sailing. He sells the pictures back to the boat owners via the registrations and you help to subsidise the aircraft costs. It's all very simple. Getting a US PPL to do this is very easy. A little harder than it used to be, but still pretty easy. It is not considered flight training, so no VISA is required, or TSA registration. I signed up to do it, booked up, but was over the seat weight limit of the R22, so had to bale out, literally.
