I have a PPL, but dropped getting the medical. The FAA has no way of knowing if I'm dead, alive, or alive but no longer flying. I get nothing from them and send nothing to them.
But with this new proposal in which I must log onto the Internet and take a medical self-check course, they can assume that if I take the course, I must still be flying.
That's an advantage for them because they can count me in the "active" pilot column during their bean counting.
Oh, and even if the exception is not granted, I'll bet they like that idea so much they'll add it to the LS pilot requirement.
