Flying with tripod?

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Anybody any experience of having a tripod in their hand luggage bag?

Is it viewed as a potential weapon?
 
I’ve always put the tripod in the hold luggage
My Hand luggage is always at the maximum allowed weight anyway with two camera bodies batteries and lenses :oops: :$
 
Hold luggage for me too along with all the liquids, can't be messing about with plastic bags and tiny bottles.

I recall someone having a rocket blaster confiscated because it resembled the shape of a grenade.
 
I have travelled several times with a small travel tripod (three legged thing punks corey iirc) inside my carry on suitcase and no one has ever battered an eyelid.
 
In most countries a tripod is allowed as carry-on. I know carrying a tripod is fine on any US airline (TSA regulated), Canada (CATSA regulated), (is/was ok) British Airways, Air France, Aeroflot, Air India. It still has to meet the size limitation, and some airlines may not allow it to particular destinations (or at all).
 
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tijuana taxi said:
Hold luggage for me too along with all the liquids, can't be messing about with plastic bags and tiny bottles.

I recall someone having a rocket blaster confiscated because it resembled the shape of a grenade.
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Of my eight (annual) trips to the US I expected to have my rocket blower confiscated too but it never was. I bet they looked at it though..lol. Re the tripod,I took the ball head off and it fitted into my holdall..just ..and went in the hold . I took bags of Fox’s glacier mints to one of the US guides who loved them ..described them to me as having a polar bear on the wrapper so I knew they were Fox’s.He got a taste for them after another Brit gave him a couple and on each of my trips one of the bags,which were in my holdall in the hold, had been opened. Checking for drugs,I suppose.
 
I have travelled over to Greece and Canaries quite a few times with a small travel tripod in my carry on never an issue, very rare I take any hold luggage now adays
 
tijuana taxi said:
Hold luggage for me too along with all the liquids, can't be messing about with plastic bags and tiny bottles.

I recall someone having a rocket blaster confiscated because it resembled the shape of a grenade.
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My rocket blower caused maximum hilarity at CDG a few years ago, after I demonstrated what it did the security guard proceeded to point at his colleague, squeezes it and chortled in a Gallic manner.
 
Mustn't have been flying from Scotland... They'll batter anything here :exit:

Although growing up in Newcastle, the Golden Chip on Chillingham Road would batter & fry any commercially available foodstuff for a small charge. Smarties were particularly epic.
 
hunnymonster said:
Mustn't have been flying from Scotland... They'll batter anything here :exit:

Although growing up in Newcastle, the Golden Chip on Chillingham Road would batter & fry any commercially available foodstuff for a small charge. Smarties were particularly epic.
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A bit fiddly I imagine, I wonder about battered Maltesers now?
 
hunnymonster said:
Mustn't have been flying from Scotland... They'll batter anything here :exit:

Although growing up in Newcastle, the Golden Chip on Chillingham Road would batter & fry any commercially available foodstuff for a small charge. Smarties were particularly epic.
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Flying from Edinburgh two years ago my swiss army pen-knife (thankfully not Victorinox) was confiscated. Not because of the blade, but the corkscrew...apparently Sturgeon and her crew think you're more likely to die by corkscrew than knife.
 
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