the safety gear requirement will likely be an AMA thing...if it happens.

Another possible outcome to all of this, that hasn't been discussed, is that once the FAA fully understands the gravity of the situation, they will opt to tighten the traffic restraints of man carrying flights...possibly limiting them to something above 2000 ft AGL with certain exceptions... and put most other flight authority back into the property owners' right as with any other immediate use... but to ever see something like that happen will take a mindset change that doesn't seem to exist from most people we hear from...and the quite ones never count...sad...