Rob
If they want to put the quick kebash on the whole operation, all they have to do is nitpick, based on the Congressional Conference Committee's position on what an organization must do to be a community-based organization under the law.
Suppose they say to the AMA, "Uhhhhh. You don't have a good enough liaison going with congress and governmental agencies. We find you unqualified to act as the community-based organization under the law." As you say, it's court time. That sound really macho, but the truth of the matter is that it is just plain expensive and probably will produce no results for ten to twenty years. During that time the AMA is out of business outside of running contests and polishing their website.
"We find you unqualified to act as the community-based organization under the law."
Fortunately, congress didnt require cbos to get FAA approval of their degree of Liaisonocity, nor of their safety Comprehesivocity, nor of any other attribute congress defines CBOs as having. Congress did not set any bars to reach, and granted no agency power to establish bars for it. That Bar Reaching /AgencyEvaluation is not in the text, but only in your mind based on your agenda and talking points rather than the text. Congress set no bars and gave nobody permission to set those bars for them.
Of course, FAA could try making up regulations/rules on CBOs that establish bar reaching,
but of course those would be coming in AFTER congress mandated FAA make no regs/rules on CBOs.
(making them Bar Reaching CBO rules 'unlawful' and 'readily-court-killable')
But we went over this (and over and over), my old bowling buddys, remember?
Circle circle circle, just keep going after you get shot down,
folks love 40 page threads with only 7 pages of info repeated repetitiously, redundantly, and repetitiously
wow
you really paint a picture of AMA wasting lots and lots of money
lobbying to get this congressional protection.
Cause you are saying the FAA can do whatever it wants WITH this law in place,
which is pretty much exactly where we were before we paid our money to buy this congressional protection.
How can you say its a great victory that we are now treated the same as we would be without it.
You say the FAA is gonna do what they want,
and thats what we had when our lobby dollars were still in our coffers.
Of course, I dont believe you.
And from what folks have been saying about this great victory for the AMA,
I would hazard they dont believe muncie was played as a chump either.
However, you just go on believing our great victory was a waste of AMA funds, that FAA will just do what it wants regardless of fed law, and we poor downtrodden les mis in the AMA are powerless to stop the evil FAA overlords that ignore congressional orders,
if you want... its a free country after all