Well, there's what the law says and then there's the political reality. Even though there appears to be no *requirement* to involve the FAA in the "community standards" according to the law, I believe that we will see the AMA still work with the FAA to get their "buy in" to our standards. I think if we do a 100% about-face when the law is passed and tell the FAA to go pound sand, it would likely make our lives more difficult in the future...

Honestly, I don't think that the FAA has any real desire to regulate us in the first place, but there was a lot of pressure from the sUAS community to include what they see as equivalent operations as "model aircraft" in the rule-making process. This law, if passed, will give the FAA an "out" to basically leave us alone, which I think they would prefer to do in the first place - as long as, as the law says, we don't do anything to "endanger the safety of the national airspace system."

Bob