My fussy feet adore my black Eccos which are the only shoes I travel with except for something slightly dressier if necessary. They have a plastic shank and never beep. Ask when you buy--not all have them. When I go through security, I just say: I paid extra for non-beep shoes....and they check the size of heel and test me. This has worked every time but once at JFK when the woman seemed offended and wanded me in the "naughty" seat and asked for her supervisor to check me out as well. She said I had "refused" to take off my shoes. (I would have removed them if requested at the machine.)

Last week, though, I was wearing toe-revealing sandals as I picked up an unaccompanied minor in Tampa and they asked me to remove those. I did have a creepy feeling on the carpet. They did let a child in flip-flops go through with her pilot father! I hate that shoe bomber guy!