Zeemax 0 #1 November 21, 2003 So i'm travelling through the US with my rig, domestic, then interntaional flights. I print out all the directives for the TSA, the letters to the USPA, CYPRES information.. everything... Pack the rig pretty much on its own in a carry on back.. Get to the xcreening points, put the bag on the conveyor and walk through the detector... What do the damn TSA do?? NOTHING! bastards.. lol, i was all ready for an argument, but no.. nothing... first guy didn't even bat an eyelid. Second screener, on the way back to the UK, stopped the conveyor and didn't know what it was, someone told her and she just let it go... then the conveyor stopped again and another screener asked about a bag. I thought it was mine and said if its about the rig its my bag. She looked at me and said.. no... not yours. Your not carrying a C02 cylinder are you? i said no... very confusing.. but anyway, hats off to the TSA. no trouble at all Phoenix Fly - High performance wingsuits for skydiving and BASE Performance Designs - Simply brilliant canopies Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
McDuck 0 #2 November 21, 2003 Dude! I was holding my breath the entire read-through. We're going to the Thailand boogie, and I was dreading horror stories of getting rigs through screening. Kevin - Sonic Beef #5 - OrFun #28 "I never take myself too seriously, 'cuz everybody know fat birds don't fly." - FLC Online communities: proof that people never mature much past high school. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CrazyIvan 0 #3 November 21, 2003 THE NERVE!!!! __________________________________________ Blue Skies and May the Force be with you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
marks 0 #4 November 21, 2003 ya those guys didnt even open the bag that i had 2 rigs in.... then my roomate went through and saw the hhok knife through the x ray and went right to it and made him mail it back home.... but other than that no problems whatsover... they even knew what was in my bag... while he was off mailing the knife to the house the lady asked me what i did with my hooknife. i told them i packed it in the checked bag..... then they asked why my roomate didnt do that.. well thats when i told them that hes a dumbass Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumper03 0 #5 November 21, 2003 whew. I was expecting to read that you had to whip out the badgers on them......Scars remind us that the past is real Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zeemax 0 #6 November 21, 2003 i sooooo nearly did.. i had the dance all ready for them.... it even included wiggly hand movements for the snake! it was when she asked me if my rig had a co2 cylinder that i got confused...Phoenix Fly - High performance wingsuits for skydiving and BASE Performance Designs - Simply brilliant canopies Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
McDuck 0 #7 November 21, 2003 I've got some great ideas for pictures: Going through screening, doing the badger dance; getting on a C-130 load doing the badger dance; going to a Thai prison doing the badger dance...wait, scratch that last one. Kevin - Sonic Beef #5 - OrFun #28 "I never take myself too seriously, 'cuz everybody know fat birds don't fly." - FLC Online communities: proof that people never mature much past high school. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lee03 0 #8 November 21, 2003 TSA = T housands S tanding A round! They are nothing but a pain in the ass! Ignorant, irresponsible, arrogant idiots!-------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,064 #9 November 21, 2003 >Ignorant, irresponsible, arrogant idiots! Bad experience with airport security, eh? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gus 1 #10 November 21, 2003 I flew from Orlando to Chicago on my way back to London last week. Watched my suitcase (with 2 rigs in it) go through the TSA's machine, was quite certain they'd query it but they didn't bat an eyelid. When I came in to the US (Washington) the customs guy got me to open up my suitcase but didn't seemed particularly interested in the rig. He twanged my hackey a few times "What's this for?", twang, twang. I asked him how often he saw skydiving gear and he said it was the first rig he'd seen in the year that he'd been working there. All in all it was much easier than I thought it might be. What caught my attention was some of the crap that people take on as hand luggage, you could easily take a rig. GusOutpatientsOnline.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lee03 0 #11 November 21, 2003 Nope, as a pilot. Their stupid TFRs. Grounding me when I won't even be flying in the area that they put it in. These things move, and they don't tell yyou when, where they are. You can take off, fly through one..without ever knowing it's there, because it isn't published, the brief you got says nothing about it, but next thing you know you have F-16 on your ass, your forced to land.. they pull your pilot certificate and the chances are that you won't get it back! And this isn't the FAA (who's suppose to be the only ones that have the authority to do so) that pulls it, it's the TSA. Your guilty, branded a threat to national security without fair process of law! TSA/Dept of Homeland Security is proof of a government completely out of control! They don't exist for the purpose of security of the nation or of it's people. They exist to CRUSH the freedoms of the people of the nation!-------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
meltdown 0 #12 November 21, 2003 TSA = T housands S tanding A round! ________________________________________________ They're waiting for a disabled 7 year old girl in a wheelchair so they can make her get out and frisk her. Happens every time I fly with my daughter. Then they go back to doing squat. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lee03 0 #13 November 21, 2003 "They're waiting for a disabled 7 year old girl in a wheelchair so they can make her get out and frisk her. Happens every time I fly with my daughter. Then they go back to doing squat." BASTARDS! May every last one of them that does this to you daughter rot and burn in HELL! Them doing this to her makes me sick to my stomach! Typical of this government though! May God bless you and your daughter.-------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
