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How Do You Travel With Your Amazingly Expensive MF Camera and Lenses

robsteve

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Re Allen keys: they're the kind of things that officious TSA employees seize even thought they're not prohibited. I had a small pair of folding scissors seized once, and began carrying a copy of the TSA prohibited/permitted items list when I travelled. (The scissors had a rounded tip and were expressly permitted.)

The list permits carrying tools or screwdrivers less than seven inches in length: http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/prohibited/permitted-prohibited-items.shtm#7

The problem is that arguing with a TSA employee is likely to make you to miss your plane, or even be deatained or arrested.

Stephen:

Don't forget that the TSA rules are for travel in the USA. Other countries have other rules and the TSA may have to apply these too if you are at an airport flying internationally.

Tools of any sort have not been allowed on flights in Canada since the Air India incident in the 1980's when all our security was tightened up to levels similar to what 911 created in the USA.

Robert
 
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