Travelling with a drone vs travelling with a tube of toothpaste

[SpyderSkeets]

There is one thing I just don't understand:
I have been traveling quite a bit lately, and I've been bringing my drone. As you should know, lipos must be in your carry on baggage and not checked, and I carry my entire drone kit with me as carry on baggage. Here is this pack of bricky-looking batteries, which have the potential of exploding (rare, yes. But possible nonetheless), a remote control, a drone, sharp propellers (one of my drones has carbon fiber props that could have the potential of being a weapon) and whatever else that may be in your kit and it goes through the xray machine without so much of a second look from the TSA. However, bring a tube of toothpaste that might be too big, and you're not getting on the plane unless you throw it out.
On one of my trips to California, I brought my wife a nice glass globe that has some sand and some beachy things inside and I didn't want it damaged, so I carried on and the TSA had to examine that not once, but twice! But the drone kit? Right on through.
Im not complaining though. I am glad I can bring my drone with me. But the priorities of the TSA just do not make any sense.

 

[colinfowler]

There is one thing I just don't understand:
I have been traveling quite a bit lately, and I've been bringing my drone. As you should know, lipos must be in your carry on baggage and not checked, and I carry my entire drone kit with me as carry on baggage. Here is this pack of bricky-looking batteries, which have the potential of exploding (rare, yes. But possible nonetheless), a remote control, a drone, sharp propellers (one of my drones has carbon fiber props that could have the potential of being a weapon) and whatever else that may be in your kit and it goes through the xray machine without so much of a second look from the TSA. However, bring a tube of toothpaste that might be too big, and you're not getting on the plane unless you throw it out.
On one of my trips to California, I brought my wife a nice glass globe that has some sand and some beachy things inside and I didn't want it damaged, so I carried on and the TSA had to examine that not once, but twice! But the drone kit? Right on through.
Im not complaining though. I am glad I can bring my drone with me. But the priorities of the TSA just do not make any sense.

Agree totally.
Thay may however have a problem with the props.
I remove mine and pack in hold bag.
1st time traveling they were more interested in the blades than the batteries. I said they were fixed and didn't have tools to remove them. Passed through ok.

 

[crisp007]

I know what you mean traveling back from Antigua last week they took my lighter off me I thought here we go trouble coming but nothing my drone went straight through [emoji106]

 

[MavicCF]

There is one thing I just don't understand:
I have been traveling quite a bit lately, and I've been bringing my drone. As you should know, lipos must be in your carry on baggage and not checked, and I carry my entire drone kit with me as carry on baggage. Here is this pack of bricky-looking batteries, which have the potential of exploding (rare, yes. But possible nonetheless), a remote control, a drone, sharp propellers (one of my drones has carbon fiber props that could have the potential of being a weapon) and whatever else that may be in your kit and it goes through the xray machine without so much of a second look from the TSA. However, bring a tube of toothpaste that might be too big, and you're not getting on the plane unless you throw it out.
On one of my trips to California, I brought my wife a nice glass globe that has some sand and some beachy things inside and I didn't want it damaged, so I carried on and the TSA had to examine that not once, but twice! But the drone kit? Right on through.
Im not complaining though. I am glad I can bring my drone with me. But the priorities of the TSA just do not make any sense.

Do you really have no idea how dangerous those larger tubes of toothpaste are??

 

[Sprocket]

There is one thing I just don't understand:
I have been traveling quite a bit lately, and I've been bringing my drone. As you should know, lipos must be in your carry on baggage and not checked, and I carry my entire drone kit with me as carry on baggage. Here is this pack of bricky-looking batteries, which have the potential of exploding (rare, yes. But possible nonetheless), a remote control, a drone, sharp propellers (one of my drones has carbon fiber props that could have the potential of being a weapon) and whatever else that may be in your kit and it goes through the xray machine without so much of a second look from the TSA. However, bring a tube of toothpaste that might be too big, and you're not getting on the plane unless you throw it out.
On one of my trips to California, I brought my wife a nice glass globe that has some sand and some beachy things inside and I didn't want it damaged, so I carried on and the TSA had to examine that not once, but twice! But the drone kit? Right on through.
Im not complaining though. I am glad I can bring my drone with me. But the priorities of the TSA just do not make any sense.

Just think. You can tell the guys at work or the coffee shop that you have a drone that you've had to 36,000 ft., 540 miles per hour, and can fly for hours at that altitude. Legally.

 

[KelloggKid]

And once you clear TSA and are in the secure area you can buy unlimited quantities of Purell (flammable) and then have lunch at Chili's where they give you a sharp metal knife. TSA is not about making sense but rather making sheeple feel good.