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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" 
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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.

   

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