They pass electronics through the scanners separately and scan them defferently, looking for explosives, so you’re pretty much OK… But if you’re an activist type rocking camo clothes and a bushy terr’ist beard, you’re gonna get a hard time. In my case, they made me hand over the gear to be specially scanned by the feds and registered and stored separately to the rest of the cargo. Oh and I got a frisking.
LOL, so that equates to them being a bit more careful with your luggage, putting it somewhere a bit safer than the hold and you get groped in the process, doesn’t sound to bad to me ;D
It’s not so bad if you’re into having your balls in a fed’s hand.
Oops I left my politic switch in the ON position…deleted.
Ontopic, I wanted to take it as hand luggage, and they wouldn’t let me, so I was not happy with the handling, although yes, it’s better than standard luggage. I always take the good stuff on as hand luggage (carry-on), since my ex told me the story of when she was forced to allow luggage to be put in the cargo hold… she watched her crate of rare vinyl from the airplane window being thrown into the hold, after sitting in the rain for 10 minutes.
FYI the MB-6582 went in checked-in luggage, well packed amongst lots of clothes and stuff, with a padlock on the zip. It was not opened and searched, and no one pulled me off the plane asking questions. I also had a big C64 PSU in there too, parcels with packed SIDs and about 20 metres of audio and MIDI cables… and these went Melbourne to Rome, then Rome to Munich by air.
I thought checked-in luggage was the best option, considering the paranoia surrounding what you can actually carry on… “Oh no, sir, that tube of toothpaste is more than 100ml, you will need to throw it in the rubbish.” Last year at Heathrow, I was not even allowed to carry on a laptop bag AND a projector, “Oh no, sir, that’s two bags, you are only allowed one.” The irony is, you go through the security checkpoint and then can buy bags of duty free booze etc. and waddle onto the plane carrying twenty plastic bags of stuff if you want. So now on planes I brush my teeth with vodka.
Thanks Wilba. I got my chips, I think canadian customs had thier way with the package as it was opened enough to take look inside. The actual chip packing looked un-disturbed.