Airline travel with radios?

[10-43]

It’s my excuse to not have to check my bag on a full flight. When told “all the overheads are full, you’ll have to check your bag”, I reply, “sorry, I’ve got a 2-way radio with 5 LiON batteries, It stays in the cabin. And it did. But I leave my APX at home, & travel with my XPR.

Yeah, the batteries keep it in the cabin. Good plan.

 

[kayn1n32008]

Never ever had them check frequencies. They dont care. They just want to be sure its not a detination device.

TSA is concerned with keeping explosives off the aircraft and weapons out of the cabin.

Don't need it blaring the airport police if they ask you to turn it on...

 

[10-43]

Don't need it blaring the airport police if they ask you to turn it on...

They still wouldnt care. It isnt illegal to monitor and they are not tasked to do law enforcement. They are tasked with one aspect of aircraft safety.

Of all the times I have flown with radios which are many, they only asked me one time to turn one of them on.

 

[Cavscout]

Sitting in KBOS Admiral's Club right now with APX8K and XG100P in my back back. When I went through securitie... the TSA guy basically yawned at my two radios, iPad, 3x Laptops and a stack of miscellaneous electronics.

 

[10-43]

Sitting in KBOS Admiral's Club right now with APX8K and XG100P in my back back. When I went through securitie... the TSA guy basically yawned at my two radios, iPad, 3x Laptops and a stack of miscellaneous electronics.

Yeah. My experience too. They are looking for items dangerous for the flight. Concern about anything else outside that responsibility is distracting from that mission.

You have my sympathies being in Logan airport. My wife is from Stoneham and in recent years we fly into Portland ME. Much easier and relaxing. I worked for a company in Lexington for 9 years.

 

[Cavscout]

Logan isn’t terrible but I am just transiting here so I don’t get the troopers yelling at me in the Terminal B loading and unloading area. I fly Augusta <-> Boston <-> Dallas a lot.

 

[ecps92]

Logan isn’t terrible but I am just transiting here so I don’t get the troopers yelling at me in the Terminal B loading and unloading area. I fly Augusta <-> Boston <-> Dallas a lot.

I'm assume you mean Augusta as in Maine - next time thru, TSA up there (UHF 406-420) still needs to be found and a NAC

 

[ecps92]

Sitting in KBOS Admiral's Club right now with APX8K and XG100P in my back back. When I went through securitie... the TSA guy basically yawned at my two radios, iPad, 3x Laptops and a stack of miscellaneous electronics.

Probably he is one of our members here

 

[10-43]

Logan isn’t terrible but I am just transiting here so I don’t get the troopers yelling at me in the Terminal B loading and unloading area. I fly Augusta <-> Boston <-> Dallas a lot.

Being in Logan isnt terrible. Getting in and out of it by ground transportation is horrible.

 

[Cavscout]

I don’t recall seeing any radios in/around the TSA check point at AUG. It is so small, they only have room to process one person at a time through the checkpoint.