Tireless efforts by AOPA and Experimental Aircraft Association paid off in the letter half of 2015 with passage in the U.S. Senate of the Pilots Bill of Rights 2, legislation that among other things would eliminate the need for most private pilots ever again to obtain a third-class medical. As written, the bill applies to any private pilot flying an airplane with five or fewer passengers seats, below 18,000 feet and under 250 knots. New pilots would still need to take an FAA medical exam once, as would pilots with medicals that lapsed more than 10 years from the bill’s passage and special issuance medical holders. The bill now moves to the House.