Topic: Airplane travel with gear and DAT's..

[Tim]

I'm dead serious... we're talking about dealing with the TSA not exactly a  bunch of Phi Betta Kappa's working for the TSA.

power supply sounds professional.

[BCostigan]

I guess so....sounding professional when dealing with that type of situation I'm sure is a good idea.  Thanks for the tip!

[Steve J]

Traveling in the last few months, it's been sort of 70-30 (no search - search) as to whether they stop me to look through the stuff. I DO tell them as I hand them the bag that it is recording equipment...seems to have cut down on the times I get the full search. Most of the airports I've been through, the TSA's seem to have a familiarity with the equipment used for recording, judging by the decreasing numbers of questions I get. They are most concerned if they are unable to see through something on the scan (e.g., lead batteries).  I have yet to have the need to pull out the MSDS; but I'd still have it with you!

FWIW, the TSA's seemed to be most concerned about my shoes and the Leatherman's tool I forgot to take out of my bag (went back and put it in my car). Give yourself extra time and just be polite: seems to go a whole lot easier that way.

[Lil Kim Jong-Il]

I'll second that advice to sound and act professional.

Long before TSA, I used to carry my gear all jammed in a padded bag or backpack.   I would get searched, questioned, please turn it on, etc.   The CP4 capsules seemed to really bother them.   Then I got a hard shell equipment case and put everything in foam cutouts.  After that they never bothered me again and at one airport where my bag got searched closely every previous time, the security guy gently caught the equipment case before it could slide down the track and handed it to me saying "I know how expensive this stuff is."

[Just Taper Mark from NC]

I've been hassled over my at8410's,let everything else go without a glance and pulled them out of my backpack and swabed them! :rotflmao:

[Tim]

I've been hassled over my at8410's,let everything else go without a glance and pulled them out of my backpack and swabed them! :rotflmao:

you could use the rubber bands to shoot out the pilots eye!

[Just Taper Mark from NC]

yeah,good point tim I never thought of that.

[John R]

in the archive section there are the forms to print to keep with your SLA.  btw just a small hint, when you bring it through and they ask you what it is.

BTW those links are dead

http://www.ecocharge.com/PDF_forms/transportationpolicy.pdf

[jmerin]

i have flown so many times, i can't count.  but i have used the word BATTERY, and never had a problem.

[Genghis Cougar Mellen Khan]

in the archive section there are the forms to print to keep with your SLA.  btw just a small hint, when you bring it through and they ask you what it is.

BTW those links are dead

http://www.ecocharge.com/PDF_forms/transportationpolicy.pdf

It's usually been no problem, but I had a problem recently:

http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=36124.msg593124#msg593124

[mhibbs]

Hi all,

When travelling on the plane, and you carry on your gear, how do you handle the DAT's?  Will the security scanners ruin the tapes..either blank or with data on them?  Should they be considered film and handled as such?

I've run tapes through the carry-on scanners countless times with no issues.  Not sure about the new checked luggage scanners.  They seem to cause more problems w/ film, so they may be bad news for DAT tapes as well....not sure.  One of my SLAs is home built and I've never had any problems with it.