If you parent a camera to an empty (or something else) and use flymode the camera isn't flying. Instead the parent, the empty, is moved/rotated.
I appended a simple example. Just start to rotate the camera in flymode and the empty will start moving, while the camera might react strange, when flying forward/backward.
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This is intentional, for durian we used a 'Camera Rigs' which needed to have the parent moved rather then the camera.
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But its bad for other things, like shaking the camera with an empty (parent). Since you can't move the camera itself, if its constrained by a driver. In this simple scenario you can't fly the camera anymore.
I don't think that this is good in any way if it's not optional.
Do i have to parent the camera to an empty that is parented to an empty with shaking effect?
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Ill look into having an option for fly mode and camera locking where you can select between moving the parent or the child.
Added to my todo
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Ideasman42#TODO
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Added a user preference for this, r36824
Interface -> View Manipulation -> Camera Lock Parent