Epirb

[daleboutm]

I have to take my new Epirb by plane to Turkey.
- Has somebody experience with taking an Epirb by plane.
- Do I have to put it in the carry-on baggage or in the Cheque in baggage
- Do I have to mention it by checking in.
All info is welcome

 

[Channel Ribs]

I would not put it in my hold luggage.

The main issue if it is in your hold luggage is likely to be the battery.

What make is it?

The best thing is to ask your airline.

 

[Carmel2]

Yes, I would contact the airline, In this day and age it might be something customs might take a shine to, and you would never see it again.

 

[KellysEye]

As others have said you must check with the airline. They normally have facilities for dangerous cargo (batteries for one) but it's not cheap.

 

[macd]

By no means definitive, but I brought one back from the States four years ago in carry-on luggage and no-one batted an eye.

Can't see why batteries should be a special issue: umpteen things with them are routinely accepted on board, mobile phones, laptops, MP3 players...

None of this, of course, denies that there may be some daft new rule. So perhaps wise to check an airline (but maybe not the one you've booked with).

 

[maxi77]

The biggest risk with taking it as carry on is that some **** will tell you to switch it on or it will be confiscated

 

[Bilgediver]

Yes, I would contact the airline, In this day and age it might be something customs might take a shine to, and you would never see it again.

Some EPIRBS had batteries in them that contravened the cargo regs due to lithium content. This has now been addressed in more recent ones I believe. It made it a pain in the neck if trying to airfreight.

This is the only problem you might have. Your manual should address this question and advise the battery lithium content. If not lithium then no problem but wrap it securely in aluminium foil....Something you should do anyway if carrying it around and a chance of it activating.

 

[rogerthebodger]

I took my old epirb from Johannesburg to London to get it services and come back with it and a second one and no one was interested either way. That was September/October last year.

 

[rivonia]

If you try to take it on any airline without declaring it, it will be confiscated. Declare it show all literature including bill of sale and you will be fine. Contact your carrier.

Peter

 

[MYAG]

EPIRB update

Just got back from Dalaman,Turkey. I needed to bring back my EPIRB so I carefully wrapped it up and placed it in my hand luggage. It was picked up in the x-ray machine at the terminal entrance check (all airports in Turkey have screening to enter the terminals) my bag was opened and I was asked to explain what it was, which I did and they seemed happy with the explanation. My passport details were recorded in a security log and I was then escorted across to the check-in (beating all the queues!) The check-in staff asked the same questions but this time they asked me to switch it on! I guess to prove it was the real thing instead of being full of something else? I lifted the battery test lever and it did its bleep and strobe routine. That's when they all smiled and said, "Aha! you can't take that in the cabin, it will have to go with your checked bag in the hold". Apparently, no strobe lights in aircraft cabins are permitted. The carrier was Turkish Airlines. I was re-united at Heathrow, no problem, all intact.

 

[KellysEye]

I would definitely check with the airline even if it doesn't have a Lithium battery. It's not worth the risk of having it confiscated.

 

[Bilgediver]

Can't see why batteries should be a special issue: umpteen things with them are routinely accepted on board, mobile phones, laptops, MP3 players...

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EPIRBS sometimes have lithium batteries and sometimes of a size which exceeds the rules regarding free movement around the world in planes and ships cargo.

Yes I know it sounds daft...

There have been recent changes....either the rules changed or the makers used less lithium or smaller batteries . However this as been a problem for years when officially shipping these things by air and sea.

If you want to do it then it properly then you need to advise the airline it is lithium powered and give the battery details and if not in the manual you might have to search them out. If a new Epirb it may say on it that it is OK for air freight otherwise it comes under hazardous cargo

 

[youen]

Last month I bring my ebirp from Portugal in France,I put it and one vhf in my hold luggage and had no problem in Porto neither then in Paris when I rechecked when changing of plane.

 

[daleboutm]

I have taken the risk and brought my Epirb with me to (Istanbul) Dalaman.I have put it in the cheque in baggage and there where no problems. I didn't inform the carrier (Pegasus). I have checked there site and that of other airlines but none of theme mentioned anything about goods as the Epirb. So therefore I have taken the risk. It is no guarantee of course.

 

[Bilgediver]

I took my old epirb from Johannesburg to London to get it services and come back with it and a second one and no one was interested either way. That was September/October last year.

You can sometimes get away with 1 KG of heroin through customs but doesn t mean it is allowed!


Most handling agents at airports would not know what an Epirb is or that it
includes a lithium battery. Did you explain that it had a lithium battery that might exceed the international limits for dangerous cargo

We all carry the wrong things from time to time however airlines are slowly becoming more aware as I have found carrying walkie talkies in and out of Canada. Fine if a sea captain but frowned on if not. Fortunately the handlers don t know a ham radio from a marine one.

 

[rimmydisuza]

Proactol

If u wanna go to rottnest island just went at hillarys or fremantle houbour and ask people on they boats for a free ride . And maybe if they going to rotto u might get a free trip. I know poeple who done it.