Small Aircraft
Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 150; Flight Crew Total 21000; Flight Crew Type 1000
Situational Awareness
Conflict Airborne Conflict; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General None Reported / Taken
Human Factors; Weather
Around noon I was performing an aerial photography mission and with the low ceilings and turbulence; I got too low while shooting and circling over my target. Apparently a drone operator was operating in the same vicinity and complained that I was flying too low! I think at one point I might have been 6-700 feet AGL momentarily in an area that might have been considered a congested area depending which side of the road you were on. I see up and coming issues with drones down low in the boundary layer conflicting with low flying aircraft. They are starting reach up close to our operating bands.I will be watching my altitude more carefully and for drones in my airspace too.
Aerial survey pilot; operating at 600-700 feet AGL due to weather; is informed after the fact that he may have flown too close to a drone operating in the same area.