Excellent crack at thread creap there DB6 - not a bad effort at all.
Interesting point you make about the regulatory body tho... I assume you refer to the lovely people down at the Belgrano? Sadly, those folks care not a jot for the financial well being of the flight training community (from the student to the FTO director) unless there is a safety issue attached and the only safety issue I can see here is that the likes of Bose-X risk getting lynched before they step out to their aircraft.
VFE.