Note 1 from 78-09-05

[YankeeClipper]

Note 1 from the wing spar AD specifies 3000/300 for the inspections, if the airplane (or at least the components in question) were used for "contour or
terrain following operations at low altitudes". Walking through the older logs for my D model (still not yet ferried home), I found an unfortunate oversight on my part: a field approval for a camera port, and an eddy current inspection at 3000 hours. The AD note doesn't specifically mention aerial photography, but it also doesn't make an explicit list either, using words such as, well, "such as", and "etc". Now it also uses "strongly urges" for such cases, but my IA firmly believes that if I were found in the woods with my wings folded like a lawn chair, the FAA would call bad judgment on him and do their worst.

Would you qualify aerial photography as "contour or terrain following operations at low altitude"?

Did the previous owner open Pandora's box for me, regardless, by doing the inspection at 3k hours?

Has anyone done this recently that wouldn't mind sharing the cost of it?

Thanks.