RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: My 52 cents worthFire...a moment of your time.....for the rest..... just disregard unless you have patience!!
Anonimity is afforded all of us on this board....I don't ask who and what you are...I dont really care. Who and what I am is not relevant... particularly in light of the fact that I could offer you any exotic response I wanted. And since most of you have chosen to believe little of what I've said over 2 years...it's highly unlikely you'd change now!
I'm no Tokyo Rose...thanks for the comparison...and I'm not being paid...certainly you're a big enough boy to not buy into that bullsh$t argument!
I've always said the company has a niche product for a niche market...I stand by it.... primarily because they've yet to prove otherwise
A proven fuel management system my arse...AFIRS cannot manage fuel any more than the gas gauge in my car can. There's a confusion of apples and oranges here. AFIRS collects data and retransmits it .....it's the subsequent analysis of that data for all regimes of flight that allows the aircraft operator, in conjunction with AMA's fuel saving ''strategies', to modify the operating procedures after the fact, if and where possible and in conjunction with the manufacturers certification and performance specs, to realize greater fuel efficiency. And all those 'strategies' are nothing new...they've been employed for years by most of the worlds major carriers...they compare notes regularly and trade operational information. It was the lower tier carriers that did not have the same level of sophistication that AMA was initially targetting..by their own acknowledgement. They sold everyone on the idea that China was the break into the big leagues...how's it working so far?
And if they had some grand new strategies that were heretofore unheard of ...don't you think for a moment that their ideology and strategies wouldn't have been more warmly embraced by the industry at large??
''Substantial'' payments from Sierra Nevada...how much is ''substantial''... if you read the News Releases carefully you'll find that S/N agreed to pay an upfront licence fee and royalties on all 'future sales' as well as contibute funds to 'future' AFIRS design. The word substantial doesn't show up ...and the licence fee was supposed to help with AMA's short term working capital needs...apparently it wasn't ''subtantial'' enough since they were back raising money shortly thereafter.
So far I've yet to hear of Sierra Nevada installing any of AMA's equipment with the military!
As far as the agreement with L-3... I'm all for it...much as I am for the S/N agreement. I view them as encouraging...but I also view them as piggyback agreements that reflect the fact that AMA's gaining little traction in the marketplace with their own direct efforts. Youll recall that Meggitt was the great panacea when it was announced...heard anything about Meggitt contributing to the common good so far??
Here's an excerpt from the L-3 news release
The agreement provides for a reselling and teaming arrangement under which L-3 will offer aircraft manufacturers and civil aviation end-users a bundled total system solution to provide for the economical accessing of analytical data that an FDR records via real-time data streaming, from anywhere and at any time around the world. Additionally, AeroMechanical will be the exclusive provider to L-3 of iridium-based, real-time data communications and Internet data delivery solutions, including its revolutionary FLYHTstream data streaming solution, and its fuel and emissions management solutions. The team will offer customers multiple commercial options to facilitate purchasing decisions. The agreement also provides for L-3 to offer AeroMechanical products and services to operators of maritime vessels in conjunction with L-3's marine voyage recorder products.
Together with an on-board L-3 FDR, AeroMechanical has demonstrated real-time FDR data and aircraft position streaming on in-service aircraft using its patented automated flight information reporting system (afirs). Using ground-based data analysis tools, operators can review captured data to plan maintenance and verify that each aircraft is conserving fuel and flying safely. In an emergency, ground personnel can review data for aircraft and subsystem functionality, and provide guidance and recommendations to the flight crew.
Note again the reference to ''a fuel management solution''...it is not direct 'management' and it is not proactive...it can alter nothing in flight. And in the second reference ''verify each aircraft is conserving fuel''. That's purely anecdotal at that stage ....and if it isn't conserving fuel there is little they can do about it....the aircraft is being operated in a fluid environment...and there may be many valid reasons why the aircraft is not operating acccording to some highly efficient theoretical norm. And if you're in doubt...I could give you a list as long as your arm!
I could go on ad nauseum...why bother!!
And yes...I'm in it for the money...I thought that's why the rest of you were in it....or are some of you just altruistic company builders and defenders of the good?
And apparently you cede to me power I don't have....I cannot influence the share price here any more than all of you have been so ''successful'' at doing.
When the stock was a $dollar or so ...I suggested it would retreat...it did ...down to a dime or so.
I was then reminded it was a lucky guess...any fool could have called it....and that's OK by me! Remember...we're here for the money ...right!!
Recently...when the stock was about 20 cents or so...I stated that they would juice it for a financing...it's all there in one of my posts...and they just lived up to my expectations! Another lucky guess I suppose!!
I've managed to trade it and make money....right now I have no position. A good reason, you'll all say, to talk it down...RIGHT!!
If I had that kind of clout or omnipotence I wouldn't be wasting it here.
Soooooooo...we'll agree to disagree...individually or collectively we're but a fart in a windstorm...it's out of our hands.
And just to warm your heart...I'll continue to pay attention.....because on the outside chance that they do make a serious breakthrough.......I'll be more than happy to lay another little wager on them!
You see...I'm not against them.....I just think they've a long way to go yet to prove that the ultimate customers...the folks that build and fly these big modern aircraft.....are really paying any real attention to them....and that's why it's still a 50 cent stock!
Cheers to anyone who took the time to read this!!