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Troy

Okay, so leave out the drill. You can find a stick nearly anywhere. Just the fireboard & the handle. They probably wouldn't even know what they were...

Really, they probably mean drills: "Everyone get your hands up and crowd into the toilet, or I'll drill holes in your head so you hear flutes when the wind blows! NOW!" (Accompanied by sound of battery-operated drill battery dying...)

IRONRAVEN: Just WHAT is it that YOU are telling her the fire piston is??????

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I think the drill, bow and 7+" long tools are so you don't put a hole in the air frame. It's not that thick. Although it's doubtful you'd have an explosive decompression, I suppose there is a risk. But I think the entire plane would freak out if you put your battery operated 24V Hammer Drill armed with a 10" long diamond tipped titanium bit against the fuselage and pulled the trigger. An arrow could puncture it probably as well as a bullet - I've never tried to get on a plane with bowhunting gear... anyone get on with carryon bow and a quiver full?

I wonder if my sai would be considered a weapon or a tool or both? :-)

I told her exactly what it was!

She thought it was something else. She asked who the lucky lady was going ot be. *blushing to my toes*

I don't know. If some guy sits next to me on a plane and whips out a fire board and drill and starts trying to set his shoe on fire, I'm going to put my seat back in the full upright and locked position and whack him with my seat cushion/floatation device.

I'm not even going to comment on the fire piston.
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Just remove the scalpel and you are fine. I have traveled twice since 12/22 and they have never said anything about it at all. Although I will now remove the contents list..
Also a great tool that is OK is a pair of EMT shears; TSA has no problem with these. Actually they have always been allowed.
Bill

Yes!! Many times! I mix that with my first aid toiletry kits. I usually travel pretty light so I have only a small kit. I went through the whole TSA song and dance in the last week at both PIT and DFW including the handy dandy explosive sniffer and had no trouble. The only things I normally carry that I did not have with me are the afore mentioned sharps. I could have done first aid, started a fire, navigated, and had water to drink, food to eat, meds to take. Since I also carried a diamond-sharpening card in my wallet I probably could have had a usable edge on my fire steels striker (ground down from a saws all blade) in a few minutes.
I keep an eye on the TSA list of prohibited items and am very careful to never carry anything that is illegal. I do as always try to think outside the box.

An item being "allowed" and your being permitted to carry it on your person are two entirely different things (going by TSA logic). Have you traveled by air with EMT shears on your person?

-- Craig

I just got back from a trip to asia. I went through airport security five times total in four different countries. Every single one asked me to open my bag to check out the 'sissors'. In the US at SFO they let me keep the EMT shears, but took some sharper sissors in my little sewing kit because they were pointy. At three other checks the screeners looked at the shears and said 'don't use them on the plane'. On the way into the US in Seol, S. Korea, they told me that I couldn't board with the shears and took them. I wasn't so botherd because I was headed home, and they were very professional about the process, much better than I've experienced with the TSA folks here.

Sometimes it's a roll of the dice if it's questionable, even if it's technicaly within the rules.

And no one asked about the permenant match either. I guess it's not really recognizable as a lighter.

As always, YMMV

-Jeff

Wow! I just found a small Buck pen knife in the bottom of my briefcase. I found it in a parking lot and put it in my briefcase back in August or September. It (along with my briefcase) has gone through airport security four times! Twice in Nashville, once in Orlando and once in Baltimore.