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Thanks to all who addressed this issue.
My conclusion is that one cannot be sure.
Most of the flights I fly are multiple-leg
flights (that's a hudge disadvantage of living
in a little town in the Midwest) and the
security checks usually happen each time I
change the airplane. So if I don't want my sextant
to be seized somewhere in the middle, it
is probably better to pack it to my luggage.

Next question: Celestaire advertizes some bomb-proof
plastic box called "all weather sextant case", $84 with foam inside
(they even offer to
mold the foam according to the shape of your sextant, $14).

Can anyone compare this box with the classic way of packing
a sextant? I mean in its native wooden box with clamp,
the worm disengaged from the arc, arm secured against the frame,
empty spaces filled with foam, and the whole box put inside
a bigger cardboard box filled with foam?
(This is how my sextant arrived from Ukraine by UPS.
The clamp arrived broken however).

Alex.

   

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