Originally Posted by
sbagdon
Not picking sides, yet I'm getting from this that the xray tech has discretion, and I was under the impression that discretion was the one thing that TSO's didn't have. No variables, no choices, no decisions, you do the prescribed action, no matter how valuable or not. This is interesting...
There's no way any practical SOP could cover
every situation that a TSO could encounter. I don't think it's at all practical to list everything that would cause a bag check: that
must be left to the discretion of the operator.