The whole formula is highly unfair towards small enterprises and really cripples the industry. When we broke it down a while ago we arrived (if I recall the figures correctly now) at $35 / seat / yr that Precision Air is charged (TZ's biggest carrier) while the smallest of companies with one small charter aircraft (4 seat, e.g. 182-equivalent) is charged a whopping $3333 / seat / year. Try to offset that with 200 revenue hours a year!
Yes, there will be candidates trained up to CPL level, but they might not be able to find a job in their home country anymore by the time they graduate because its aviation industry is gonna be non-existant in next three years time if TCAA carries on with their extortionist practices. 20 years asleep on the job and now the operators have to pay for those past mistakes
All the while TCAA will just keep minting money on the operator's expenses by making them continuously pay 10-30,000 USD every year while the money that went into the loans will be paid back with an interest on it (or is that perhaps going to be pocketed by someone?) And the best part is that not a shilling of it stays in the Tanzanian aviation industry but gets pumped into one of two South African flight schools through an ominous middleman.
Even their former DG shakes his head over this craziness, saying they will bring this industry to a grinding halt if they carry on with their overinflated fees, levys, taxes and lastly this training fund which he himself calls "nothing but a giant scam". Go figure