The TIF scam has been running for a long, long time. Students of SMS will be aware of the term ‘normalised deviation’. That’s what TIFs are.
When it goes horribly wrong, the ‘operator’ and CASA will be on the same rather than different sides of the court.
Cloudee quoted one of the key conditions on the main exemption under which the ‘ultralight’ community continues to escape the clutches of the regulatory Frankenstein’s monster. Someone walking off the street and paying money to be flown around in an aircraft s/he didn’t buy or build - pretend training or otherwise - doesn’t satisfy the condition.