In my experience, it is not that much what you carry on but how suspicious you may look to them, regardless (up to certain point) of the electronics you carry on with you. At least this is my experience flying a lot to UK: We consistently confirme= d everytime we dress a tie and standard business jacket you won't get questions about electronic prototypes you carry on. However, 80% time we ge= t into Heathrow with casual dress you get exhaustive control and detailed inspection of all prototypes, in most cases having to power them up and explain how it works, why you need it, etc. May sound crazy but we ran some experiments with a few collegues and works just like that. 2010/10/29 Mike Harrison > On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:47:36 +0100, you wrote: > > >Was Re: [EE]:: Urgent project - due in NZ in 6 hours ... :-) > > > >On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:35 AM, wrote: > > > >> I am wondering if you would ever see your luggage again if sent off wi= th > >> a piece of electronics holding a battery, after going through the > >> airport x-ray. I can imagine sitting in the boarding lounge only to he= ar > >> a controlled explosion across the airfield as a suspicious piece of > >> luggage is blown up ... > > > >Probably tongue in cheek. :) > > > >I travel world wide a lot with work (a few 100ks of airmiles) and > >carry prototypes and dev boards in hold and hand luggage. An odd time > >(1 in 10) I have been quizzed going through US Customs (Not security). > >But then a number of our flight cases look heavy duty metal (Aluminium > >frame, sliver coloured ply panels) and locked (Approved locks for Air > >travel :) ). > > I often travel (mostly UK internal and EU) with various bits of prototype > stuff, test gear, random > handmade cables etc. and have never even had a carry-on hand-searched. > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 Ariel Rocholl --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .