No, they don't. (on both accounts). It's easy to place the blame at a federal agency just as it's easy to blame all this on the AMA as well. There always has to be a badguy. As for the FAA, of course they don't want to do this. They have far bigger priorities, much more important things to deal with. People seem to think they are this autonomous entity that just cooks up schemes to get more power. My favorite is when people think they are doing this for money...as if they see a penny from any of these programs. They aren't funded by us...they are funded by yes you guessed it, congress!