RobbieW
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Post wasnt cheaper to Italy earlier this year; with 20kg costing 20-25UKP as an (extra) bag on a plane or 50-60UKP with a carrier plus you have the benefit of whatever you want shipped arriving with you
Propeller in cabin baggage.
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Post wasnt cheaper to Italy earlier this year; with 20kg costing 20-25UKP as an (extra) bag on a plane or 50-60UKP with a carrier plus you have the benefit of whatever you want shipped arriving with you
macd
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Usually. My new Fortress went to the Canaries last year. We went to Turkey. How's that for dragging? :ambivalence:
charles_reed
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I've carried a prop both out and back again (to Greece) but never in hand baggage.
If security think it can be used as a weapon (and you'll find them unpersuadable) you'll not get it on board.
If security think it can be used as a weapon (and you'll find them unpersuadable) you'll not get it on board.
ricardio
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If you are taking something on a flight as hand luggage the airline and security both need to be happy . At check in the airline representative is unlikely to ask if you have a propellor in your hand luggage so they will not know. On the security gate if an item is not clearly proscribed (i.e. a knife) it is down to the judgement of the individual on the gate and whatever instructions they have. Partly to make it harder for the bad guys to second guess security and partly because of the element of judgement there will be what are apparently inonsistancies.
In todays climate I hope the default position for unusual objects is that if the security person is not satisfied that it poses no danger it does not go on board as hand baggage. A 10kg lump of metal with three sharp blades seems a pretty good thing to smack someone over the head with, either deliberately or accidentally when it falls out of a locker .
Ringing the airline in advance may be a bit of a waste of time. The guys with responsibility for making sure the plane does not fall out of the sky are at the airport, not the call centre.
In todays climate I hope the default position for unusual objects is that if the security person is not satisfied that it poses no danger it does not go on board as hand baggage. A 10kg lump of metal with three sharp blades seems a pretty good thing to smack someone over the head with, either deliberately or accidentally when it falls out of a locker .
Ringing the airline in advance may be a bit of a waste of time. The guys with responsibility for making sure the plane does not fall out of the sky are at the airport, not the call centre.
richardbrennan
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As a retired pilot, I can confirm that weight would be, or perhaps I should say "should" be the issue. What we used to call "hat racks" are not stressed to take overly heavy articles, to be on the safe side I would weigh the prop and ask the airline whether it will be acceptable.
mjcoon
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It is amazing we are allowed to take litre glass bottles, with their handy handles, on planes. But then there is profit in them there moonshiners...
Mike.
Petronella
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I think the answer here is "possibly". I tried to take a windlass gypsy in hand luggage from Gibraltar to the UK. It was within the weight limit and not in the list of banned items. The security checkers told me it was a tool and hence could not be taken aboard. I said it was going back to the UK so a tool could be used to mend it! They had a big meeting and told me it couldn't be carried. The banned list is just guidance and they can stop anything they like. They said I could use it to hit the pilot on the head.
So back down to BA check in who said it depends on which checkers are on duty as to whether things are allowed through. We had no other checked baggage so ended up paying more for the gypsy in the hold than the flight.
I probably wouldn't try it again!
So back down to BA check in who said it depends on which checkers are on duty as to whether things are allowed through. We had no other checked baggage so ended up paying more for the gypsy in the hold than the flight.
I probably wouldn't try it again!
typhoonNige
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I carried our KiwiProp back to the UK for repair in hand baggage with Virgin Atlantic. It was well within the weight limit. Perhaps it was the plastic blades that made it OK, but it was "inspected" before boarding on both flights and deemed OK.
basic
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Thanks for labeling me a miser when you do not know me. In fact the 30 quid you mention happens to be 25% of my weekly income so is quite a lot to me.
Thanks to everyone else for their answers. I eventually emailed the carrier who told me it would be classed as a dangerous object and would not be allowed in hand baggage.
