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You can apply to the TSA Preapproved program and avoid the shoe removal, most long lines, etc. I haven't endured those things for the past year. Some airline premier clubs allow a similar status.
OntheRez wrote:
I'll likely get in trouble for the following as it isn't strictly a Canon gear thing, but if you've got Canon then it applies to you. While standing in line for the pre-boarding "shakedown" I've often wondered where TSA suddenly found this army of people to do all this screening. There are certainly plenty of polite, competent people just doing their job, but the "I'm a tiny bureaucrat with a stop sign" mentality makes many otherwise unremarkable people act in truly officious ways.
I mean some dummy tried to put a bomb in his shoe so now we all take our shoes off. As for the electronic thing, it's always baffled me. I suppose you could load enough C4 into a laptop size container to do real damage to a plane, but simply x-raying it would reveal that it isn't a computer. As for the "boot the computer so we can see it work," I'm truly bemused. I guess it might be possible to build a laptop size radio interference device so as to cause navigation error or difficulty, but the complexity of such a thing and the fact that it would need some sort of antenna makes the whole thing rather absurd. Also, even in this electronic age experienced pilots can navigate VF at least over the large areas they travel. Landing would require radio intervention, but again a device to screw up the nav computer and take out communications? DOD would no doubt love such a gadget.
All I can say is that I've boarded planes in various places in Europe without all lines, harassment, and general idiocy we experience here.
So the real answer to your question appears to be "We have a bureaucracy and we need a reason to keep funding and growing it." Okay. Off the soapbox. Back to your regularly scheduled Canon gear war over how poor it handles shadows and how far behind the rest of the universe it is
Robert
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