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Re: Air travel with a sextant
From: Paul Bryans
Date: 2004 Dec 10, 08:24 -0000
From: Paul Bryans
Date: 2004 Dec 10, 08:24 -0000
For international travel look on: http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/dangerous_goods Then download "Passenger Information" I have not had any questions about a sextant (they have fun trying to work out what it is on the X-ray) or EPIRB but life jackets can cause trouble if you come up against a "jobsworth" with his own list; one pilot even refused to let one on when asked - and they do have the final say. Paul Bryans ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jared Sherman"To: Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 8:06 PM Subject: Re: Air travel with a sextant > < that's more trouble.>> > > I flew out of LGA with my autoinflating vest on 9/17/2001, returned at the > end of the month from SeaTac (where the inspectors have always been MUCH > MUCH better, i.e. tighter) and no one questioned it. > > Again the answers are at www.tsa.gov, a life vest of life-saving equipment > with a CO2 bottle is specifically allowed in the cabin for air travel under > international convention, I think the name for it is "UN Class 2 lifesaving > equipment" or something unequally mundane. Since there is a similar piece of > equipment stored under each seaet in the cabin--by FAA regulation--for every > overwater flight, they can't really tell the passengers not to bring the > same equipment on board, when the FAA not only allows by REQUIRES it to be > in the cabin. > > A fumbling inspector might not understand...it pays to check the regs and > confirm that UN classification number, and to carry a printout if possible. > (Sorry, don't know where I last saw it but the mfrs. should be able to refer > you to it.) > > Anything that flunks security can go back to the ticket counter OR at the > discretion of the facility, you can request a "gate check" for it. It goes > with you to the gate, then goes below and is loaded in as baggage at the > last minute. That's what they do with baby strollers and carry-on bags that > are found to be too large. > > The other option, if the inspector doesn't know what a sextant is, is to > tell them "Ask any senior pilot, they know what it is because they used to > be required to use them for navigation." The pilot always has the last word > about what can come on the plane.