Last summer I asked this question on the list and the answers were varied. I will go through the drill all over again in August, when we fly another bunch of scouts into Glacier for a week of backpacking. For what it's worth, in pre-9/11 days, there actually seemed to be confusion among airline personnel as to the policy on transporting stoves or empty sepp bottles. One of our adult leaders was eventually told that thoroughly cleaned and dried stoves and bottles could be transported in checked luggage. We used "backpacking" stoves and air-dried the open bottles in the baking sun for a day or so. If you check with airlines, make sure the personnel know what you're talking about. Good luck and let the list know what current policies prevail! More recent air travel has not left me with a good feeling about the security of flight checks. On a recent flight to and from Ireland my carry-on luggage attracted no scrutiny, despite the fact that my bag contained half-a-dozen bungee cords with nasty looking hooks on the end. Also inside my bag was a metal-clad opisometer (map measuring wheel thingie) that to me has the outline of a derringer and that I was expecting to have to explain and demonstrate to every guard I met. Except for the x-ray screening of the bag, which provoked no further examination, nobody looked into my rather bulging carry-on. Coming back into the US, after retrieving my daughter's checked bag, we walked right out of the terminal onto the street, with not a word of interrogation or scrutiny from US customs, despite the fact that we had flown on Royal Jordanian airlines, most of the other passengers being Arabs who originated in Amann with only a stopover in Limerick. Tom Joyce > > I am leaving for a paddling trip in a couple of days and I would like to take my stove with me (for cooking). I know that I cannot take the fuel, but is there a problem taking my stove in my checked luggage on the flight? > *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Jun 22 2002 - 06:10:41 PDT
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