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Is It Time to Train A & P Mechanics?

FILE – In this April 10, 2019, file photo a Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplane being built for Spain-based Air Europa rolls toward takeoff before a test flight at Boeing Field in Seattle. A Russian aircraft leasing company that ordered 35 Boeing Max jets is suing the U.S. aircraft maker, accusing it of hiding defects in the plane that has been grounded after two deadly crashes. The Miami-based lawyer for the leasing company said Tuesday, Aug. 27, it is the first lawsuit filed against Boeing by a Max customer. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

How Many Aircraft A& P Mechanics Do We Need?

In this article I would like to open the discussion of the possibility that the recent airplane accidents and mishaps may be a biproduct of the fact that there just aren’t enough Trained Certified A& P mechanics.

These are the people that are certified to work on aircraft. The question is, do we have currently enough of them? And are we planning for the future needs to produce these highly qualified individuals to do the work required on airplanes?

In recent months we have seen an increase in Airplane mishaps. I wrote this article because I believe that the cause just might be the lack of qualified A & P mechanics. They are known as Airframe & Power Plant Mechanics.

It has been my experience that the companies that I worked for did not see the value in sending their employees to get training. They say it doesn’t help their ROI or Return On Investment.

I think they really should take a longer term view of what the return on having well trained mechanics, and how much they actually contribute to the products being produced.

There are approximately 204,000 airplanes in the United States today.  If you need at least 4 mechanics per larger aircraft, and as some aircraft are smaller, so they may get by with fewer, let us say two mechanics for the smaller aircraft. The actual distribution is determined by the aircraft maintenance depots, and those numbers I think need to be tracked.

So what are the numbers?

So just to maintain the aircraft already in service it should take approximately 824,000 or eight hundred twenty four thousand mechanics to properly maintain the aircraft in service today. 

The current data says there are approximately 306,000 aircraft mechanics world wide. With 204 thousand of those in the U.S.  and  these numbers do not include those retiring in the near future.

It’s not only the manufactures of these airplanes that need to address this issue but also General Aviation needs to as well, in case you don’t know, General Aviation just are the smaller type of airplanes.

Should the Manufactures be Limited as to how many planes relative to the amount of available mechanics there are?

If manufacturers have the ability to produce as many aircraft as they possibly can, without regards as to weather there are enough mechanics to properly maintain those airplanes then we have a problem.

So this may tell the story as to why we are having many problems with the airplanes flying today, and how it may get worst if nothing is done to fix this.

The outcomes for 100% successful flights is not just predicated on having qualified pilots for these airplanes, what maybe even more important is on the availability of fully trained qualified Aircraft Mechanics. 

Although there may be some inaccuracy in my numbers, the thesis still stands that we need to be training aircraft mechanics as soon as possible. 

Thanks for reading

Joseph Sanchez

References: 

https://www.statista.com/statistics/183513/number-of-aircraft-in-the-united-states-since-1990/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/918854/aviation-industry-number-of-mechanics-in-the-united-states/

https://www.zippia.com/airframe-and-powerplant-mechanic-jobs/demographics/

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The CME is just a Giant Financial Casino

Over The Counter Derivatives What Are They?

So how big is the Derivatives Market Most people who follow the derivatives say that the amount can be as high as one quadrillion? Let us take a look at what derivatives are, these are acutely just bets. On underlying Securities or Commodities to try to insure the value of their products. But today these are No different than a financial Casino.

A Small Cash Amount Controls Much With Risk

With financial derivatives you just put a small percent down to control a much larger amount of paper. With a derivative of the notional price for that derivative moves in a direction away from the position that you took then you need to come up with money to cover, this is called a Margin Call.

What the Futures Markets were Created to do

Originally when derivatives were created, they were a kind of insurance mainly used by Farmers in order to protect their profits or the cost of growing their crops. The farmers could take a position contrary to the value of their crop. In other words, if the value of their crops was less than normal or expected, then the bet placed in the derivatives market was the opposite, so they could collect on that investment thus balancing out.

Its Out of Control Now!

But what has happened over the years since the inception of the Futures Markets is that many more players have gotten involved. You may be thinking so what? Well now days Banks and even Pension Funds have gotten into this game.

They have done this because as their normal investments like Bonds began to pay less they required more money to keep up with the payments that they needed for their pension beneficiaries. Today these banks bet on interest rate derivatives. Now can you begin to see the problem here? Derivatives are a way to achieve leverage and the banks should not be involved in risky products like those in the derivatives markets in my opinion.

Are Banks Gambling With Our Money?

Banks especially have the ability to rig these markets because they have virtually unlimited supply of money since in a Central Banking System, banks can go to the Federal Reserve Window and get Fiat money at let’s say 2 percent, and then take that money and place bets in these derivative markets. In other words they can use their power to manipulate these markets. And we already know what happens when manipulation takes place in these markets it will not end well.

Final Words

In my opinion what has been created is nothing more than a giant financial Casino. And we all know that in a casino you don’t always win. That is all I want to say at this time on this subject, but I recommend that you get better informed and look into this dilemma.

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The FDA Criticized as of Late?

The FDA Criticized as of Late? So what’s been going on with the FDA?

Let us take a look at this situation. Why has the FDA come under scrutiny lately? Could it be do to the way they have handled the quasi approval of vaccines?

Some people say that the FDA never actually did the work of checking into the efficacy of these vaccines, and they are being accused of just rubber stamping them to the requirements of Big Pharma.

I have included excerpts from a recent article you can read it here, and if you desire the whole article just click on the link provided to get the whole article by Maryanne Demasi, where she is questioning the FDA for not doing their job properly.

The FDA has been criticized for taking more than a year to follow up a potential increase in serious adverse events in elderly people receiving the Pfizer covid-19 vaccine, Maryanne Demasi reports

So what recommendations did they give?

In July 2021 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly disclosed findings of a potential increase in four types of serious adverse events in elderly people who had the Pfizer covid-19 vaccine, acute myocardial infarction, disseminated intravascular coagulation, immune thrombocytopenia, and pulmonary embolism to name a few of the side effects. 

Little detail was provided, such as the magnitude of the increased potential risk, and no press release or other alert was sent to doctors or the public. The FDA promised it would share further updates and information with the public as they become available.

So Why Did the FDA Delay?

Eighteen days later, the FDA published a study planning document (or protocol) outlining a follow-up epidemiological study intended to investigate the matter more thoroughly. This recondite technical document disclosed the unadjusted relative risk ratio estimates originally found for the four serious adverse events, which ranged from 42 percent to 91 percent increased risk. (Neither absolute risk increases nor confidence intervals were provided.) More than a year later, however, the status and results of the follow-up study are still unknown. The agency has not published a press release, or notified doctors, or published the findings by preprint or the scientific literature or updated the vaccine’s product label.

The BMJ has also learnt that the FDA has not publicly warned of similar signals detected in a separate observational cohort study it conducted of the third dose (first booster dose) in the elderly nor has the agency publicly acknowledged other published observational studies or clinical trial reanalyzes reporting compatible results. Experts spoke to The BMJ about their concerns about the data and have called on the FDA to notify the public immediately.

“To keep this information from the scientific community and prevent us from analyzing it ourselves, is irresponsible. It presumes that these organizations are perfect and cannot benefit from independent scrutiny,” says Joseph Fraiman, an emergency medicine physician in New Orleans, who recently carried out a reanalysis of serious adverse events in Pfizer’s and the Moderna based on randomized trials.

Unearthing safety data

The FDA’s July 2021 findings came from a “near real time surveillance” system called Rapid Cycle Analysis (RCA) that the agency has in place to monitor a list of 14 adverse events of special interest. The RCA study is not capable of establishing a causal relation but rather is intended to detect potential safety signals rapidly. The agency said the associations were not identified for the other two covid-19 vaccines authorized in the US made by Moderna and Janssen (Johnson & Johnson). The July 2021 follow-up study protocol states that there is a “manuscript in preparation” for the original RCA study, but to date nothing has been published for either study.

The fact that the FDA found these four safety signals means they should have followed up on the results, and I don’t understand why we have not had more information since then. It has been over a year, says Tracy Høeg, epidemiologist and physician currently conducting covid-19 vaccine research with the Florida Department of Health and California’s Marin County Department of Health and Human Services.

If you would like to read more on this subject, just click the link here to get to the original article.

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Future Technologies History Mind Control

Do You Think You’ve been Spied On?

Do you think you have been spied on? Well you just may be correct.

It seems that during the Covid-19 Pandemic a company that goes by the name of Predict-Wise has a data base that collect data on people movements. They have many different avenues of collecting this data on you.

The company uses cellphone data about the movements you make while traveling to different locations. One of the metrics they collect is whether or not you were on the movement more than your neighbors.

You may say so what does it matter, if they know where I am going I have nothing to hide. Hold on for one moment!

The Social Score

This information was used to create a social score that tell them how compliant you are to government edicts or mandates. It would compare you to others to determine your score. Still you might say so why do they want this information?

We should take a look at what they have been doing with this information. First some of the data collection points that they use: Facebook, Computers, Innovations Warrants Security, Federal Agencies, FBI stats many different sources of data. They collected 2billion GPS pings in real time for locations that people were traveling to.

Useful For Politicians

So who are the users of this information? The primary users of this data lately has been the Political Parties. They use the data to target individuals affiliations based on this data, as it reveals what venues you partake in, and how often and to what degree you are involved.

Privacy Issues

I do not know about you, but no one asked me if I wanted to be tracked, and my data to be sent to anyone period. To some companies this information is valuable. Millions of dollars are made selling this information to companies that want to sell you things. That being so, why didn’t they at least pay us something for that information which they are making millions on?

It seems to me that this goes contrary for a country that prides itself in freedoms, and individual privacy.

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Why They Cannot Defeat Inflation in Times Like These

Why they cannot defeat inflation in times like these is because they have violated the original premise of what money is. Let me explain, the reason why they cannot defeat inflation in times like these, is because of the all of the money printing as well as the supply issues. In this article lets take a look at the problem of why so much inflation in these times.

You cannot stop inflation at a time when supplies are dwindling.

If you understand (The Law of Supply and Demand) then you will get that as supply chains freeze up, supplies coming in are reduced.

Currency is the Problem

The actual problem will be that you have the same or more currency that has been created during our so called pandemic, and this currency will be chasing after a limited supply of goods.

What Actually Happens in Times of Inflation?

When this happens people will find that the sellers of their in short supply items, they will require a premium price to part with any of those items.

Especially when they don’t know when new supplies will be available. when this happens it will be very difficult to squash inflation during such a period. Now you should be able to see a little of what is coming! And how this will play itself out. When every you have a lot of dollars chasing after a limited amount of goods inflation will result.

Stay Calm

Something big will come along to fix this, so its important to stay calm as we all will need to ride this out! We should realize that this same thing with paper money has happened many times throughout history. Money generally goes form trading things of value to trading representations of value.

This is as old as modern man. Humans learned long ago to trade with others to get things that we wanted. That is what we call barter, that worked for a while until we learned that it was very in efficient. So we decided to use other things to trade as representations of value namely what we call money.

Money What is It?

Money can be anything that we as humans can agree on. Over time we learned to assign weights and size to things that we would exchange for things of value. Leather, wood, sea shells, even Tea has been used as money in the past.

As time progressed men realized that money needed to be something not so easy to create so that it would retain its value. As it turns out metals like gold fit the bill, since they were not so easy to come by and tough enough to withstand daily use.

This is just enough to get you interested, enough to get you to do some studying as to what makes good money and why those were chosen over Millenia.

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