Originally Posted by UnderOveur

Don't you mean the lobbyists lobbied the FAA rather than Congress? It was the FAA, not Congress, that has granted the exemption.

Also...

Why can't a lawsuit challenge an exemption to a law rather than the law itself? Wouldn't s plantiff simply be saying "I'm OK with the law, but dispute the exemption(s) granted to it?"

Consider...

The MIT grad calls a high-time airline CA to testify in court..."Captain, who would you rather have as your partner in a sim-check...an MIT grad who graduated with a 4.0, an electrical engineering degree, and has 1,200 flt hrs, or a K-state grad who graduated with a 2.5, an aviation degree, and has 1,000 flt hrs."??

"In your PROFESSIONAL and expert opinion, Captain, who is more qualified with these basic credentials to be your First Officer?"