Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
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.
Obviously, you've seen how other RAAus flight schools operate, otherwise you're speculating. I don't believe that there is anything inherently illegal about a TIF done in a factory built and LAME maintained RAAus aircraft. Provided that the RAAus instructor acts within both the letter, and the spirit, of the rules, then the TIF is done as a TIF. We look on the ability to conduct TIFs as a major student influencer, and it would be a major setback were it to be made illegal.
This includes signing the person up via an RAAus 'temporary membership' form, giving them a fundamentals brief, then treating them as a student and not a passenger. In flight, they must operate the controls iaw with what's in the Lesson 1 (E & OC). 9/10 of the TIFs that we conduct here are with people who have expressed a strong interest in learning to fly, and we are in a major tourist location. If they want a joyflight, we direct them to the nearby GA school which has a C172.
happy days,