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I meant to say any AIM shares etc

Sour Grapes that's all I ever seem to read on this BB these days. I'm pretty disappointed over the SP performance in the many years I have been in and out of this share. But I have the choice and at the moment I'm sticking with it not constantly bleating about what the management are paying themselves. Can't really say that any shares have performed up to expectation for many a long year but it hasn't stopped me.

https://www.brrmedia.co.uk/broadcasts/5a143c813b59b604fb0b6ccc/ariana-resources-2018-production-guidance

thanks to the 'pest from the west' as opposed to the 'beast from the east' talking up confrontation with N Korea. Pity he didn't face up to the 'reality' of the judo expert from the east doing his best to promote tension and misery in the world.

what planet are your on? Can I quote you?

share price what chance have we of understanding the market. Let's hope he's right that there will be a 'light-bulb' moment. Can't wait for ever.

https://twitter.com/theminingmaven Answered all my questions about the company and is all very reassuring particularly the rate at which the loan is beinig paid off. No questions about the political situation in Turkey but I guess gold is being snapped up locally without the need to go outside the country even if it were permissable. Turkey will always be destined to be the buffer state between Europe / The West and the Moslem world so it makes sense for gold reserves to be built up within the country because there are so many political uncertainties. And there is absolutely no reason the Government to kill (or suck dry) the goose that lays the golden eggs that backs the currency. Especially as more and bigger eggs are in prospect. Its just such a pity that all the positives in Kerims interview aren't recognised in the market and SP but at least the company is getting a much higher profile with (cheap sorry cost-effective) publicity through Mining Maven / BRR by being in Capetown. I'm well pleased with the way things are moving along. My only concern is Trumpy is keeping a low profile just at the moment and not frightening everyone which isn't quite so good for the gold price as it was when he was elected.

In terms of risk compared with manned aviation, obviously drones do not carry anybody on-board and they are considerably smaller, meaning the consequences of failure are significantly lower. The biggest risk concerns conflict of operations, either with manned helicopters or other ongoing activities on the oil and gas platform. If a UAV came into contact with a helicopter that could potentially be a very bad scenario, so we don�t fly within a certain time period before and after an inbound flight. The same rule applies for crane and other simultaneous operations on a platform.� The new Oil & Gas UK guidelines also encourage offshore operators employing drones to think about the whole operating and safety system offshore, and not just the air vehicle, as Connolly explains. An aviation background which AERO has is an advantage in selling the service to the insurers.

https://www.thecyberhawk.com/discussion-cyberhawk-founder-malcolm-connolly-new-offshore-drone-guidelines/

https://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/oil-gas-uk-issues-guidelines-for-offshore-drone-use/

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I am curious to know if there are any investors on this BB who have experience of operating UAVs commercially in builtup areas and just what hoops they have to jump through as legislation stands. No doubt this will all get more complicated once a UAV hits an airliner or causes some accident but it would be interesting to know just how easy it is to comply with the CAA regulations (with or without the CAA approved NQE licence qualification) to fly in built up areas / near airfields / near gas installations offshore / onshore and anywhere that might 'blow up' such as offshore oil rigs. There are extremely strict regulations for example when using anything that might generate a spark around oil platforms. For example, much of oil platform survey work often uses roped abseillers or scaffolders on the topside or in the airgap. It would be interesting to have input on these potential company money spinners. Anyone know?

on here, the more I look at Geocurve the more I wonder why they were bought out by AERO, I can only believe it was attractive to the owners. It is good that they have not been subsumed into StratAero's website and keep their own going as I suspect that their company is well recognised in the industry as being a good operator. Strat don't have that but what they have tried to bring is the training, software development and compliance aspects so in a way they do complement each other. Its just such a pity that initially the plans went awry when they peddled this almost reverential regard of the company's personnel being highly trained and versed in aviation rules and regulations that somehow meant they had a superior product to offer. The reality is its boots on the ground who make the profits in todays climate together using what I suspect is standard 'off the shelf' software. There is certainly an increasing necessity to operate within all the CAA and ICAO legislation if only to please the 'safety' lobby and insurance companies. Up until recenly I guess the man/woman with his/her drone in a field operating out of the back of a car boot surveying has been allowed to operate quite freely but this situation is changinig. Having some experience of the convoluted and maze like rules governing commercial aviation it is inevitable that UAVs will have to comply with all this costly (and in many cases pointless) bureaucracy. Once the Government get involved the I's and the T's will have to be dotted and crossed before a commercial UAV gets off the ground to do a simple survey job. It took the CAA many generations for them to recognise that commercial helicopters could take off vertically from anywhere. They still have to comply with fixed wing regulations. So I have great hopes that AERO and geo can comply with the tons of legislation and red tape that will no doubt soon engulf any surveying operation in a built up area, especially in control zones and near airport. And if they're in business of helping to write all this stuff so much the better. GLA

Can't compare apples with oranges, anyway lets see how Victoria's flagship progresses. Plenty of Vics talk and plans but then projected mine is 'shovel ready' where have I heard that before. Ok Kiziltepe is tiny and need funding despite what we are lead to believe but at least they are producing and each day that goes by as long as the gold price remains stable we are in a win win situation unless we run out of ore. Just a pity that the SP languishes. I've invested in plenty of small gold companies over the years and not many of them come good but fortunately I have seen the light in time, e.g Vatukoula delisted to raise money but SOLG SP went on to great things but now seems to be languishing, CNR was another one that I have completely lost track of but still the same old same old on the BB. You pays your money and you takes your choice. And I'm sticking with AAU - anyway gold mines are a minefield if you forgive the pun. Make a profit and get out is my motto but this is about the slowest one I have been in to date.

but still some sort of strategic plan but it seems like they are saying they need a breakthrough and maybe todays contract is just that. I would hope so https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRqlO5ka5rA

Having virtually sold out all my shares I have been on the sidelines observing progress. After the disaster of Aero Kinetics Geocurve was about all AERO had going for it. It would be nice to know the strategic policy of the company but that seems to me to be a 'moving target' so I shall continue watching and waiting with a handful of shares in my back pocket. I really would like to feel good about this company but the managements side seems to me in disarray. Hopefully that may all change in the near future and some sort of sound long-term plan will evolve. That would be the time to offer some video interviews to hear it from the horse's mouth rather than keeping us all guessing. GLA

are involved which is probably not too reassuring especially as they often share Carillion JV's but then to get access to the big money contracts you have to go in with these 'multidisciplinary' disasters. https://www.ft.com/content/48805bec-b475-3568-ad7a-59c3e42bb511 Bit more background stuff https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/companies/boost-for-balfour-as-ch2m-hill-lands-300m-flood-defence-programme/8672440.article Perhaps drone surveying came into its own when they realised how much a conventional survey would cost the EA and we got it. Forgive my early typo of �2.2m contract it should of course have read �1.1m . I was so excited by the news my hands were shaking.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/thames-estuary-asset-management-2100-programme-team2100

contract could be profitable as long as GC cope with the bureaucracy and hangers-on that are inevitable when working on government contracts. What is even better should it prove successful this could be the lead-in to other government contracts and 'blue-chip' (that's a joke when you think of CostUsAMillion and the mess they got in) companies. Hopefully where AEROs strength lies they tick all the boxes for all the usual Health and Safety, training etc c***p that these big organisations are so keen on these days.

a straw to grab hold of and a �2.2 million one at that. About the only thing this company did right was to buy Geocurve and it seems to be paying off.