Originally Posted by
rickg523
Hasn't it been cited repeatedly that the TSO has the "ultimate discretion to allow or disallow any item"?
It has. There's no way that's the regulation though. It used to be "TSA has the ultimate discretion," which makes sense. They must have changed it to "the TSO" because so many "TSOs" don't learn or follow the rules and they don't want to fire the irredeemable ones or give remedial training to the redeemable ones, so they just tell the public that the decision of a "TSO" who doesn't know the rule prevails over the actual rule.
I don't even know what a simulator is supposed to be.