Originally Posted by franklin_m

So as the AMA is going to do all the applications, per BC above, an interesting consequence is that AMA will now be the focus of any complaints that are passed to FAA. All along AMA has been loathe to enforce it's own rules, let alone the FAA's. As a result of their efforts, they may well have ... one again ... proven themselves too smart by half.

FAA will I'm sure be happy to forward complaints to AMA initially. And if AMA continues it's passive approach to compliance, they will be handing the FAA reason to go to Congress and say "See, this self regulation via CBOs is not working..."

So AMA got what it asked for, unfortunately they thought about only the step in front of their nose. They didn't think three, four, fives steps down the line