Originally Posted by tomfiorentino

To the extent there is a successful fight to get CBO status from the FAA (if in fact we don't have it now) it seems to me a hollow victory. As soon as there is an incident, Congress asks "Why?", the FAA answers "Because we don't oversee the CBO's" and Congress changes the rule/law etc and we are where we are.

Having said that I'm not sure what the longer ball is.