Narrative:

Doing aerial video photography; using a suas cavu; at 10-15ft AGL over the canal; rising to 60 ft AGL at the end of the recording to be above the tree height for filming what was in the distant. The director asked to move the location down the road about 1/2 SM and repeat the flight for a different perspective. I thought we were still outside the class D airspace as my arrival to the initial location was from the west and not near ZZZ. My estimate was 8SM distance via google maps the night before; as that's when I learned of the location. The duration of this 2nd flight was 6 minutes.later looking at the 2nd location on google maps; getting the actual ZZZ lat/long and our filming lat/long and computing the distance between the two; it looks like we were about 0.3 NM inside the ZZZ class D airspace for that 2nd flight and outside of the class D by about 0.2NM for the 1st flight. At no time were any other aircraft heard or sighted. The maximum altitude was not more than 10 ft above tree tops (about 40-50 ft AGL). The suas was in full visual view and range (150 meters max.) at all times of the pilot. I was later informed by the person checking the distance that he showed the 1st location only 0.2NM outside the class D. As that was not passed to me; and my error on google maps; lead to flying inside the class D. I have suggested to the company that a second person should check the airspace distance when it is found less than 2NM outside the 5NM ring; making sure that all others are aware of it as locations do change slightly due to terrain and accessibility that are not known until we arrive at the location.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: UAS pilot reported inadvertently flying their UAS 0.2 NM inside Class D airspace reaching about 60 ft AGL during aerial video photography.

Narrative: Doing aerial video photography; using a sUAS CAVU; at 10-15ft AGL over the canal; rising to 60 ft AGL at the end of the recording to be above the tree height for filming what was in the distant. The director asked to move the location down the road about 1/2 SM and repeat the flight for a different perspective. I thought we were still outside the Class D airspace as my arrival to the initial location was from the west and not near ZZZ. My estimate was 8SM distance via Google maps the night before; as that's when I learned of the location. The duration of this 2nd flight was 6 minutes.Later looking at the 2nd location on Google maps; getting the actual ZZZ Lat/Long and our filming Lat/Long and computing the distance between the two; it looks like we were about 0.3 NM inside the ZZZ Class D airspace for that 2nd flight and outside of the Class D by about 0.2NM for the 1st flight. At no time were any other aircraft heard or sighted. The maximum altitude was not more than 10 ft above tree tops (about 40-50 ft AGL). The sUAS was in full visual view and range (150 meters max.) at all times of the pilot. I was later informed by the person checking the distance that he showed the 1st location only 0.2NM outside the Class D. As that was not passed to me; and my error on Google maps; lead to flying inside the Class D. I have suggested to the company that a second person should check the airspace distance when it is found less than 2NM outside the 5NM ring; making sure that all others are aware of it as locations do change slightly due to terrain and accessibility that are not known until we arrive at the location.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.