Three flight crews completed recurrent training recently, we should want them to begin proving flights post haste. They should want to begin proving flights too. It's the next step in getting our air carrier certification.

Who doesn't want Baltia to begin proving flights immediately.

We've waited long enough for this 15 second evac decision. We're going into four months for a decision and add to that our request for frequency allocation.

We made that request awhile ago and it should have already been granted, imo. It was just to retain it.

C'mon Baltia!! Get loud!

The inflatable slides work at the carnivals. It's one of the most popular rides at the carnival. Like the bouncy castle.

C'mon Baltia!! Put some pressure on the FAA, you have enough information to get your pass.

Don't forget the smoke hoods for the passengers for the toxic fumes. Some airlines have them already for the flight crew.

That is the general purpose of investing Robodog. Name an investor who doesn't want an ROI.(too funny)

I actually believe in Baltia more than before and even when it runs into the pennies, I'd like to be invested in an airline company and this is my best chance. The other airlines are too expensive to have a decent position.

But we are tired of the delays in PF's and Baltia should be tired of it too and seven 15 second tests are enough, the flight crew proved itself on mini seven.

Proving flights up next (but should be NOW.)

I can't make up anymore excuses for the FAA's delay. Baltia seriously needs to begin its proving flights for many reasons, a primary reason being Baltia needs to begin initiating operating revenues, and they've earned their pass for the mini evac and must get on with the process.

position: long & strong

I have this intuition that Baltia has all the funding it needs. I don't know how; but the volume traded compared to the alleged OS is just too suspicious in a great way (that I can't understand).

This air line began in 1989 and, imo, the intention has always been to become an air line company. IMO

position: long & strong

Thank you flaflyersfan!! eom.

Investorbyday, okay, a mod can delete it; but the time between 1989 to present and why it has taken Baltia this long to get to this point has much to do with the instability of those regions that are now stable, IMO.

I am hoping somebody will at least comment on the volume post that is absolutely on point with the recent activity on BLTA while we're trying to guess a possible pps.

Thank you emit, a PASS can likely be issued because of the "comprehensive fix" implemented with some team work between Baltia and UTC (like you said).

In my opinion.

position: long & strong

August 24, 1989 is interesting in that it's the day Baltia registered shares and began its journey to becoming an air line company.

Interesting it is around the same time as the end of the Cold War and the name is Baltia which obviously comes from the Eastern Block countries near the Baltic Sea.

Around the time when the Berlin wall came down in some show of unity between east and west.

Since that time there has been many conflicts between different countries in that region...and now it seems these issues have been resolved and it's time to have an airline that serves that region of the world.

I just think this is somehow bigger than we've considered. I've studied geopolitics for quite some time in that region going back before WWI and before the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna.

Russia has at least 15 satellite states (countries) and that is a fact that hardly anybody knows about...and those countries have cities to be served with Baltia Air Lines that are included in Russia's 15 satellite states.

There is something about this company. More than meets the eye. IMO. The volume illustrates a large disparity between the alleged 7 billion and the double digit millions traded once in awhile; because it's under ten million most of the time. Odd.

Has anyone else noticed the volume of Baltia. The volume seems to perpetually stay in the double digit millions or less the majority of the time.

Yet, there are allegedly billions of shares; so do any of the long investors have an idea what could account for the lack of volume considering the amount supposedly OS.

I think the float is much smaller or that many of the big shareholders are holding the stock and not flipping it. I also think there could be a significant amount of shares that are either restricted or perhaps authorized, and outstanding but not in the daily tradable float.

There seems to be a disparity between the amount of shares traded since August compared to the incredibly large (alleged) OS.

I'm thinking there is more to this air lines than we might think.

All those mini's from an experienced flight crew on a 15 second test.

IMO, there is something huge with this company about which we are unaware. Something we don't yet know; but something magnificent.

Allegedly 7 billion OS but we only trade a fraction of a percent of that daily. It is odd and worth thinking about.

yes mrlahjr, this is a big air line company and it will have a big pps to match.

This is going to be an airline company! Just think of it... it won't stay in the pennies (big investors will see the growth and the flippers' shares will get into long strong hands for the big $$), imo.

YAY, anticipation. It's going to be so fun watching our plane's progress with the operational website created that enables us to track the flight crews progress (I think I read that).

InTheGripOfGrace, I'm a ma'am as in Yes Ma'am! :)

yes, great comment from Firestream!! eom

I just checked in! Wow, pps is climbing like our Baltia Air Line is going to do during proving flights!!

Exciting for all of us longs!!

Very much thanks to our solid posters with the aviation knowledge and approval knowledge, you know who you are!!!

Position: long & strong

Precisely emit!! Proving Flights need to get started NOW while the weather is nice and conditions are good and the FAA needs to allow Baltia to get its plane off the tarmac and into the air ASAP. Let the initiation of operating revenues begin!!

Bring on the PF's.

YAY BLTA!!

Precisely Kicks69 :) Baltia should receive a pass for their flawlessly executed mini evac. They completed it in the requisite time. It would work in a true emergency (although I say it worked better than a real emergency).

This is actually an exciting time!! I used to want the pps to rocket immediately, now I fully believe it is a real airline company and this is serious. Personally, I think it is a great buying opportunity.

We just need to get to our proving flights...ASAP

position: long & strong BLTA

great post emit! This is exciting, imo....this is a real airline company in the sub-pennies...such an opportunity.

You found some great DD there.

position: long & strong

emit! hmmmm diplomacy is very productive when all sides are trying to do the right thing. Now that a spotlight has been shown on the slide situation, the FAA would have to see a "comprehensive" fix for a known issue.

Baltia will get its certification and will be working with the FAA at all times. Baltia must be on board with FAA in a great relationship.

I think since the FAA helped Baltia every step of the way with mini seven and Baltia did a comprehensive fix of the issue; the FAA can publicly approve the mini evac and ensure passengers can safely evacuate the aircraft if such a situation presents itself.

Obviously we know BLTA successfully completed that mini... and the FAA knows it too; but how to finesse the approval to cover all parties involved could be part of the perceived delay. IMO ;)

Maybe that is what took so much time, Baltia doing a "comprehensive" fix of the slide issue.

It probably takes time to put a newly packed slide into the R1 door of the aircraft. I personally have no idea of how complicated the process is for putting a good slide into R1. Maybe somebody with knowledge of how much time it takes to replace the faulty slide with a slide packed properly.

Thank you.

Kicks69, I have faith in the FAA that it will take all information submitted into consideration and I think they will deem the test a success; because Baltia also informed them that they did a "comprehensive fix" on the aircraft's known potential slide issue. (that is in the update).

Therefore the FAA can justify an approval of the mini evac!! The FAA can only issue a Pass if Baltia fixed the slide even though other planes are likely flying around with the same issue.

CEO said they (BLTA) did a comprehensive "fix"... in their original message to all shareholders...and certainly they submitted that information with their request.

And the FAA has the audacity to keep us from initiating our operational revenue which is 100's of millions while other planes are flying around with potentially the exact same situation.

COME ON FAA!! Baltia's crew performed flawlessly and their emergency evac would have worked in an emergency.... and actually better than if there was a real emergency.

Flight crew has done this seven TIMES for a known issue.

YAY BLTA!!

Investorbyday: We're awaiting FAA response, before it was conjecture, now its been confirmed with CEO' update. Imagine, the best posters were exactly correct about pending decision with FAA in DC.

Now we wait.

YAY Baltia!!

position: long & strong

Lovin' your post Robodog!! YAY BLTA!! eom

Thank you speckulater, that stockholder increasing his position to more than a billion is huge.

Thank you for posting.

Again, thank you speckulater, that is huge news about Drago increasing his position on October 30, just a few days ago... he might know something because he is a beneficial owner.

Thank you for posting.

super video Robodog. I found it very amazing on how much work is spent on making, testing and packing slides which we never want to have to use; but if we get the luxury of not exploding, it's nice to see how meticulously the slides are made.

Inorout, that isn't fair to BLTA. The plane is in perfect condition and there is a flight crew or three awaiting the proving flights. The stock is trading oddly (to say the least) and has been trading oddly since I began watching it a few months ago.

What was volume today..4 to 5 million, the shares traded are always in the millions and yet we're supposed to agree that the float is 7 billion?!

That is a joke. The float is tight and the price moves fast when the MMs allow it.

Doesn't hurt to purchase $700 worth of shares at this price; better than vegas odds they'll succeed.

It's win win. We win if we Pass mini and we win if we get to do the 15 second test again.

This is a sub penny airline company with all filed financials and NO fluff PRs and NO TOXIC FINANCING.

technically it deployed flaflyersfan, it was a little twisted, but CEO said that mini would work if it was a real emergency; in fact if the plane is lucky enough to land on fire the evac would work, because it would be a stampede and they'd use the twisted slide if they didn't just jump out of any friggin door of a burning aircraft.

Awesome speckulater, we have to pass that mini, there is more proof that this will be deemed a pass pursuant to the FAA taking everything into consideration. In my opinion.

We don't know the real float and that is what matters, not the OS.

don estaban, that theory does not work because if that happened on the sell side we'd be in trips.

Something else is going on and I just can't think hard enough to determine what is going on. I've seen it run up to .005 on less and the OS was the same.

In the 4's the OS same

and so on....

Fair enough emit; but let's regulate the heck out of items that do matter; and one friggin slide wouldn't make a hill of beans difference in a plane on fire; but compliance with bulletins for mechanical issues takes precedence in preventing a need for a potential evac.

Oh, and the thing with British Airtours, it wasn't just a faulty slide that caused a door jam that caused issues...it was the toxic fumes from the fire that were responsible for more injured passengers during the evac.

Another adjustment that was discovered during a real evacuation was the width of a door. Everybody trying to get out of the plane got stuck like a log jam in the doorway; because of too many trying to squeeze out the door.

Now that particular doorway is required to be 3 inches wider. I don't know the exact words but suffice it to say the doorway had to be made wider in future planes in the industry.

This is also an international industry because of the air lines from more than 100 countries in the world. Standardization is paramount because of the international aspect of flying.

Baltia's flight crew must be frustrated; because they've had to do it so many times.

Maybe the FAA should focus more on 0's and 1's operating the plane and less time on what would be pandemonium (stampede) if the plane was on fire.

Maybe they should upgrade maintenance review requirements before takeoff instead of wasting time with slides deploying in a very unlikely situation that you even get to attempt an evacuation with a plane on fire.

Maybe the FAA should put more emphasis on the airplane being air worthy instead of one slide on ONE DOOR!

I don't know what happened in the recent Russian metrojet situation; but I'd bet the farm it wasn't a friggin slide issue. Hence, spend more time on the plane's maintenance review procedures before flying and practice preventive maintenance so planes don't burst into flames in the first place.

This is absurd. We successfully completed this mini. Our flight crew did everything in their power correctly. They received accolades from the FAA. The slide twisting is somebody elses problem because we had nothing to do with it. We deployed it and did the inflation and we did it in the requisite time frame.

I don't think passengers would mind a twisted slide when they're fleeing for their life from a burning airplane. Let's put this 15 second evac test into perspective.

The FAA should get on BF Goodrich's azz about the twisting slide.

And to make this even more absurd, nobody listens to anyone when the friggin plane is on fire in an evac situation. It's total pandemonium in that aircraft.

Interviews with passengers who got a chance to evacuate didn't care how they got out and one passenger said he didn't even remember the slide, he just jumped. People totally just jump out of an airplane on fire and they don't give any consideration to other passengers in most cases that I learned.

7 minis is ridiculous too. It doesn't take that many times to practice a controlled evac from a plane that everyone knows isn't on fire. It can be orderly and nice because it's NOT on fire. It would be totally different if it was on fire.

Baltia said it worked perfectly fine if it was a real emergency. It probably works better than if there really is an emergency.

From researching, it's basically a stampede to get out of a burning structure.

flaflyersfan, then why do we always say it on this message board that the FAA Eastern Michigan recommended a pass and Baltia's crew did the mini flawlessly?

People said we're trying to get certified as an airline and that our plane wasn't trying to get certified. So, I am thinking our plane has new engines and is in great condition and our flight crew performed flawlessly according to the FAA in Eastern Michigan, so our stock is going to explode upwards anytime now.

Plus the chart does say it's very oversold at this point (RSI). So technicals are indicating a climb upwards.

That phone call from FAA DC can come at any moment. We already got the Pass from FAA in Michigan.

position: long and strong strong purchase

sent to DC with a PASS recommendation from the FAA in Eastern Michigan along with Baltia's assessment of the mini.

We should be very good at this point.

pfgolf, news said it was already at 30,000 feet and probably on autopilot... Metrojet (manufactured from Airbus, A321 Kolavia) I don't know what company manufactured the engines.

Maybe Robodog has more information.

After all the hours I studied these situations, I feel that the best investigators are the FAA and NTSB and Egypt should bring in America's best to determine what happened. IMO.

Thank you Robodog. eom