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Proscribed items when flying
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Mon 16 Dec, 2013 8:17 pmby Lophophaps
Airlines have fairly tough regulations for some bushwalking items, such as stoves, fuel bottles, lighters and matches. Liquid fuel stoves and bottles need to be drained, aired and rinsed - with vegetable oil. Then they need to be packed in absorbent paper and in a plastic bag. A form is required. It's unclear if safety matches are allowed in checked baggage. Do many people here follow all these rules? What of light aircraft to, say, SW Tassie?
Re: Proscribed items when flying
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Mon 16 Dec, 2013 8:22 pmby Strider
Re: Proscribed items when flying
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Tue 17 Dec, 2013 10:13 pmby tom_brennan
You can take a lighter in your pocket...
Re: Proscribed items when flying
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Wed 18 Dec, 2013 6:00 amby Lophophaps
Strider, thanks. I had not seen that thread. (I did search.) I'm not keen on lighters - too easy to go off. The stove and bottles have been emptied, drained, rinsed, aired, and packed as mandated. I have a form. The stove and bottles will be at the top of the pack. Should be okay.
Re: Proscribed items when flying
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Wed 18 Dec, 2013 9:20 amby wayno
flying domestically in nz i've never had anyone challenge me with what i'm taking. i take a steel fuel bottle , often with fuel in it. no ones ever challenged it.
Re: Proscribed items when flying
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Wed 18 Dec, 2013 10:21 amby tom_brennan
Lophophaps wrote:I'm not keen on lighters - too easy to go off.
How does a lighter "go off"?!
Re: Proscribed items when flying
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Wed 18 Dec, 2013 11:09 amby Lophophaps
CASA reports that lighters have ignited in checked baggage. I've always used matches. When I was a lot younger I also used Magic Fire Water, aka kero. Worked a treat in wet weather.
Re: Proscribed items when flying
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Wed 18 Dec, 2013 1:53 pmby Strider
Get a firesteel. Problem solved.
Re: Proscribed items when flying
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Tue 24 Dec, 2013 2:22 pmby davidmorr
wayno wrote:flying domestically in nz i've never had anyone challenge me with what i'm taking. i take a steel fuel bottle , often with fuel in it. no ones ever challenged it.
Some friends have been challenged, at Queenstown I think. They made the mistake of asking what to do.....
Another possibility is to fill the bottle with water and carry it that way. Full of water => no air => no explosion.
And water is probably easier to clean out than vege oil.
Re: Proscribed items when flying
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Tue 24 Dec, 2013 2:53 pmby wayno
well the no of explosions happening on flights around or too and from nz,, zero....