I want to carry on my regulators. I also want to carry on my HID canister light, I am worried about the bulb getting beaten up. Will I be allowed to bring these items on the plane with our current travel restrictions? Thanks for you help.
Flying tomorrow: equipment carry-on's?
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There currently aren't any restrictions on those items. You may want to check the battery (in a suitcase) though.
I flew today and will again tomorrow. I carried my regulator/computer/camera housing with no problems. HID battery? That I have no clue about. I would venture to say that the battery will be a problem.
Get there early, I arrive 3 hours early today and the TSA folks were very helpful. It appears that everyone was working together today.
Get there early, I arrive 3 hours early today and the TSA folks were very helpful. It appears that everyone was working together today.
eclipse785
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According to the NTSB, the answer is yes. You should be able to take any form of electronics (within reason). The only recent change to carry on items are liquids & gells.
How stupid.. why couldn't someone hide some liquid or gel inside of what appears to be a battery? Sigh.
I bet they'd look at a large battery twice. Don't you think?jonnythan:
It'll always be possible to slip this stuff by no problem. Stash a little PCMCIA-card shaped vial in a laptop, another flat little vial in your wallet, another in your Gameboy, whatever.howarde:
Sorry, didn't mean to hijack
Allison Finch
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I read somewhere that regular batteries were still OK but liquid and gel cell batteries were not. My caving canister light is a gel cell....so I would check it.
Damselfish
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I was under the impression they could detect liquids in general, not just going by shape. They just couldn't tell what the liquids were.
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