If you like them so much, why not ship them home? That would solve the allow or not allow carryons problem.

I undertand about the salad dressings COMPLETELY fholt. A recent trip to HI yielded a fantastic wasabi sale that had me pack one entire bag devoted to this product only. But liquids, I'm not sure about. I agree that it would perhaps be better to pack the bottles up and ship them to your home.. Besides, it would be much easier on your back (a lot less weight in your carry-ons). I recently shipped myself some Wasabi dressings from SEA; had a friend out there pack 'em up and UPS 'em, pretty cheaply too. They arrived unbroken and delicious!

Thanks fholt. Looks interesting. Now all I have to do is convince the Mrs. that I really need a GPS.

Does anyone know of a site that compares different GPS units and makes recommendations (sort of Consumer Reports style?).

CO allows GPS receivers (it's printed in the magazine).

I specifically asked the captain of a CO flight once - absolutely no prob...

Make sure you have a window seat.

cpd

p.s. I was on a bunch of pivate jet flights just recently, and the pilot told me that the "no electronics under 10,000 feet rule" was to CYA - in case gameboy hit someone in the head - or in case of emergency, it wasn't in the way. It had nothing to do with navigation. Same for cell phones - as that's all about commerce.

news: sci.geo.satellite-nav

Sorry I can't get the link to work. Just copy into the address bar. or google it.

I'm just having fun imagining...

"So what's in your bag, sir?"

"Just the usual. Two jugs of salad dressing and my global positioning device!"

Watchful LMAO Thanks

OneDog try the websites for garmin and magellan two of the better manufacturers.

geocaching.com also has some of the information you are looking for.

This thread has me wondering about any caches at airports? Hmmmm maybe we can do it but probably will have to be virtual caches.

MikeFly: I recently started doing some geocaching and also thought it would be fun for those interested to do some at airports. I suspect since 9/11 though any cache found by the wrong person would immediately require airport evacuation. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif What would a virtual cache be? Would that mean the cache might be something permanent in the airport such as the No Smoking sign at gate 26, or something like that? Anyway ... I'm interested.

Letiole I too am new at gecaching. As I understand it virtual caches are like you described. You would give the coordinates and some kind of clue like the third letter from the left and people would post their answer to see if they are correct. You are correct an actual cache at an airport would be difficult and may trigger a security event. The only thing I thought of is getting a club member to hold a package (naturally explaining it and letting them examine it. Then in the clue post the hours the cache can be inquired about.

If you like contact me off the board to discuss further.

MikeFlyYou have mail!

I've found a site that lists airlines that do allow and airlines that don't allow gps units to be used onboard.

www.gpsinformation.net/airgps/airgps.htm

Well, I'm home now, and the GPS was not an issue, not even when I was "randomly selected" for some additional screening at STL. That was on the outbound, so no dressing on me at that time. I was asked to drink some water (from a bottle I had in my carryon that was sealed - I opened it and complied but what if it had been jugs of Rikki Rikki soy Ginbger dressing?).

No worries at all on the way home. I did leave my big compass home, in favor of a teeny one that only points out general directions. We were after easy ones anyway, so no problems at all.



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fholt wrote:
This is interesting. My 12-year-old son wants to take water samples from airplanes and bring them home to test for colliforms and such. This could pose some problems.

this seems to be common practice on occasion at least. He shuld be OK bringing samples form the flight home... http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

I the past 3 years, I have used my GPS on at least 48 of my last 50 flights and only once told to turn it off once (on AA)

On many of these flights, the FA's noticed that I was holding the thing up to the window & most knew it was indeed a GPS too. The main airlines I was on: UA, US, AA, AC, LH, VS, plus several other smaller flag carriers, commuters, cessna operators & helicopter services. I love using the GPS on a flight.

Once, on Air Canada, I was invited up to the flight deck during the flight to "use it" with the pilots. The GPS wouldn't work up in the cockpit though, because of gold laminate & other protective stuff in the windscreen.

I have never by questioned by security, just asked to turn it on a few times.