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13th December 07, 05:10 PM
#1
I will be going back out there several times next year, so i will have chances to fly kilted. In fact, she's getting married next year, and I will plan on being kilted at her wedding. I'll use this trip to watch what I have to go through at the airport and think about how it would go being kilted. Kind of just thankful I get to see my sister again, so I'm not going to worry too much about it.
I tried to ask my inner curmudgeon before posting, but he sprayed me with the garden hose…
Yes, I have squirrels in my brain…
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13th December 07, 05:12 PM
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 Originally Posted by Ted Crocker
I will be going back out there several times next year, so i will have chances to fly kilted. In fact, she's getting married next year, and I will plan on being kilted at her wedding. I'll use this trip to watch what I have to go through at the airport and think about how it would go being kilted. Kind of just thankful I get to see my sister again, so I'm not going to worry too much about it.
Do you have the same security measures for internal flights as you do for international?
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13th December 07, 05:16 PM
#3
Maybe not, I don't fly very often.
 Originally Posted by ccga3359
Do you have the same security measures for internal flights as you do for international?
I tried to ask my inner curmudgeon before posting, but he sprayed me with the garden hose…
Yes, I have squirrels in my brain…
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13th December 07, 05:16 PM
#4
 Originally Posted by ccga3359
Do you have the same security measures for internal flights as you do for international?
Boy do we.
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13th December 07, 06:12 PM
#5
 Originally Posted by Kid Cossack
Boy do we.
Perhaps some of our vendors address and offer as an option a flying friendly (read security freindly) kilt. I know Steve at FK built Dreadbelly a casual with no metal.
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14th December 07, 09:45 AM
#6
 Originally Posted by ccga3359
Perhaps some of our vendors address and offer as an option a flying friendly (read security freindly) kilt. I know Steve at FK built Dreadbelly a casual with no metal.
Yep -- USAKilts uses velcro on their casuals, and can put it on the semi-trads instead of buckles. I have two that they made that way, which I wear when traveling. Works great! (As long as I remember to take off the garters -- there's enough metal in the garter buckles to set off the metal detectors! )
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14th December 07, 10:16 AM
#7
The last time I flew, I had to take my boots off three times!
1. Bag x-ray
2. Metal detector
3. Shoe check, looking for explosives or some such nonsense.
After the first flight, I just carried my shoes until I got through the metal detector.
I also got selected for "random" searches at 3 out of the 5 airports I passed through. 
The next time I fly, I'm gonna go kilted. If I'm gonna get harrassed anyway, I may as well be comfortable.
Enjoy your trip! Too bad there won't be room for your kilt...
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14th December 07, 10:20 AM
#8
I could walk naked through the detectors and still manage to set them off. I just returned from a cross country trip wearing a USAK Semi and had zero problems. I let the TSA agent know I had buckles holding stuff on and she had me walk through. Alarm went off and I went over the the wanding area. Now, the hometown airport TSA lady I think was messing with a male co-worker. As I was putting the sporran, computers, brief case, shoes, belt and coat through the scanner, I caught her out of the corner of my eye saying to the x-ray operator, "Oh, I love that look". Then, she gets a really sly grin when I told her I know I'll set off the alarm as she calls for male assistance. This guy was clueless and they knew it; finally I said, "Man, its just a kilt. Wand as normal" while she's laughing at him. Coming back through the airport on the other end was so uneventful as to be a yawn; in fact as I was putting my shoes and sporran back on, I commented more to myself that at least I remember to not wear a SD. The TSA agent doing a test next to me said, "Yeah, some don't". I said I'll bet that caused a lot of excitement. He said only the first time it happened.
The moral of the story is that, for me at least, there is no more or less hassle going through the checkpoints kilted and I'm much more comfortable.
If they outlaw guns, can we go back to using swords?
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14th December 07, 05:16 AM
#9
 Originally Posted by ccga3359
Do you have the same security measures for internal flights as you do for international?
Of course we do. You have to remember, all of the 9-11 flights were internal flights.
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. - Japanese Proverb
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14th December 07, 07:57 AM
#10
Ever since the first time I flew kilted my bits have insisted on kilts for future flights.
I go with the UK Survival II and unsnap the cargo pockets for the scanner. Very easy. I don't resnap them though just put them in that pocket thing on the seat back in front of me. Easier to fit into the sardine seats.
And hey, let them wand away. Seems like about half the bifurcated folks get wanded too. They wand ladies in skirts. Why not gents in kilts?
Ron
Ol' Macdonald himself, a proud son of Skye and Cape Breton Island
Lifetime Member STA. Two time winner of Utilikiltarian of the Month.
"I'll have a kilt please, a nice hand sewn tartan, 16 ounce Strome. Oh, and a sporran on the side, with a strap please."
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