This is what I do: BEFORE I get in line to go through security, in fact, often before I even get to the airport, I place stuff (keys, pens, coins, bazookas, baynonets, box cutters, armored personnel carrier, etc) that will tickle the x- ray machine into a backpack. I don't wear a belt. I wear jogging shoes so there's no metal. For the humor impaired - I don't really board with my bazooka and armored personnel carrier, etc - they go in the checked luggage David http://home.attbi.com/~damiross > The biggest issue I have is semi personal. I have a lot of crap on me that > I have to take off (pager, phone, keys, rings, change, badge) and they > really don't have a place to do it. I'd like a couple of tables just as > you enter the rope lines so I can get all of it out, I'll hold up the line > if I wait until I get to the checkpoint tables. That and one of my belts > sets off the machine about 1/2 the time. Like I said to the one TSA agent > when he asked me if I wanted to take my shoes off, if I go off, I go off, > wand me, there is only so much I'm going to take off on a maybe. He just > laughed, and that trip through, I didn't go off. > > Shawn > > > > At 10:59 AM 2/20/2003 -0800, you wrote: > >David, > >I agree with you about the smoothness of travel these days. > >I took several international trips and 15-20 domestic round > >trip flights within US after Sept. 11 > > > >My experience is , except the transitional periods (transition > >from priv. firms to TSA, from some bags checked to all bags > >checked, etc. ) the travel has gotten better. Noone is talking > >about the skies being less crowded. Thanks to that ATC delays > >are almost non existent anymore. > > > >TSA is doing a much better job compared to the private companies. > > > >I think most of the discomfort is created by the airlines. Who > >cannot forget the stupid USAirways rule changes of last year. > > > >I have a better solution for the people who are nervous about > >traveling, turn off CNN, turn on Travel Channel.. > > > >BAHA ACUNER - CFI,CFII,MEI > >Soon to be travelling CFI. > > > >www.bahadiracuner.com > >www.acuwings.com > > > >- David > > You land a million planes safely > Then you have one little mid air > And you never hear the end of it